Styjun

I'm working on an application that does not show in "Recent Items" when navigating away from it. I know that it doesn't close the application because I can launch it from the app icon and it retains the state that it was in when I navigated away from it. SO's main suggestions are 2 manifest attributes in the main activity, and fixing these seem to solve most people's problems:

<activity
 android:label=""
 android:excludeFromRecents="true" />

The empty label and/or the excludeFromRecents attribute being set to true is the cause of most of these issues. Unfortunately, this is not the case for me. Please find my manifest code below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="21" android:targetSdkVersion="28" tools:overrideLibrary="com.experience.android.webviewintegrator,another.library.here"/>

<permission android:name="permission.name" android:protectionLevel="signature" />
<uses-permission android:name="permission.name" />

<!--Every app defines its permissions-->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FLASHLIGHT"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" />

<application
 android:name="com.application.name.here"
 android:largeHeap="true"
 android:icon="@drawable/app_icon"
 android:theme="@style/AppTheme"
 android:networkSecurityConfig="@xml/network_security_config"
 android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
 tools:replace="android:icon,android:theme,android:name,android:networkSecurityConfig">

 <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />
 <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.wallet.api.enabled" android:value="true" />

 <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY" android:value="@string/app_google_maps_api_key"/>

 <uses-library android:name="org.apache.http.legacy" android:required="false"/>

 <activity android:name="com.activity.name.here"
 android:label="@string/app_name"
 android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
 android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize|keyboardHidden">
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 <data android:scheme="schemeName" android:host="browser" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 <data android:scheme="schemeName" android:host="home" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 <data android:scheme="schemeName" android:host="web_panel" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <data android:scheme="schemeName" android:host="widgets_panel_flat_spec" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <data android:scheme="schemeName" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 <data android:scheme="http" />
 <data android:scheme="https" />
 <data android:host="host" />
 <data android:host="alsoAHost" />
 <data android:pathPrefix="/" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="com.company.receiver" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <data android:scheme="schemeName" android:host="applink" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="com.venuenext.stadium.RECEIVER" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <data android:scheme="schemeName" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <data android:scheme="schemeName"/>
 <data android:host="@string/launch_host_tm_account" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 <data android:scheme="schemeName" />
 </intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
 <data android:scheme="schemeName" />
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 </intent-filter>
 </activity>

 <meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.ApplicationId" android:value="@string/facebook_app_id"/>

</application>

Things I have tried:

• Checking the merged manifest to see if there are any libraries overriding the excludeFromRecents attribute: I did find an activity in another library that contained this attribute (set to true) and removed the entire activity by creating an activity node for it in my manifest and then applying tools:node="remove"


• Applying android:excludeFromRecents="false" AND tools:replace="android:excludeFromRecents" to the activity node - no luck


• Applying tools:remove="android:excludeFromRecents" to the activity node - no luck