Enable "Dont keep activities" from Developer Options from command line or Espresso test case

Question

I want to test if the onCreate/onDestroy flow works fine when running my Espresso tests, and I can enable "Don't keep activities" from the developer options on the device manually but I can't find a way to do it on remote devices, like firebase test farm.

Is there any way to do this programmatically?

Answer 1

Like here How to know "Don't keep activities" is enabled in ICS? have you try this :

Settings.Global.putInt(getContentResolver(),Settings.Global.ALWAYS_FINISH_ACTIVITIES,  1);