Answer by Nouman Ghaffar for Removing an activity from the history stack

It's too late but hope it helps. Most of the answers are not pointing into the right direction. There are two simple flags for such thing.

intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);

From Android docs:

public static final int FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK Added in API level 11

If set in an Intent passed to Context.startActivity(), this flag will cause any existing task that would be associated with the

activity to be cleared before the activity is started. That is, the activity becomes the new root of an otherwise empty task, and any old activities are finished. This can only be used in conjunction with FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK.