Change Title/Label of an Activity in Android 5 recents screen

Question

With Android 5, Google supports multiple activities in the recents screen for a single application. I managed to implement multiple activities in the recents screen with this official doc. How can I change the title of the activity? Switching to recents screen always shows my app name as title.

Activity.setTitle("title"); 

changes the title on the toolbar, but I want it to change in the recents screen, just like Google does in Google Chrome App.

I need to change the title programatically.

Answer 1

In your activity you can use new method:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.secondary_layout);
    setTaskDescription(new ActivityManager.TaskDescription("Activity 2"));
}

setTaskDescription sets information about activity in recents task list. In this example only title.