Suppose you have an email sending app and you have two activities in it. One is MainActivity which has the email list and other one is for displaying an email (EmailViewActivity). So now when you receive a new email you display a notification on statusbar. And now you want to view that email when a … Read more
After digging inside TaskStackBuilder‘s implementation, the problem is that it forces adding Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK to the 1st intent in the stack, which makes that strange effect, so use the following to start the stack: Intent[] intents = TaskStackBuilder.create(this) .addNextIntentWithParentStack(myIntent) .getIntents(); if (intents.length > 0) { intents[0].setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);// Or any other flags you want, but not the `.._CLEAR_..` … Read more