Reload activity in Android

Is it a good practice to reload an Activity in Android?

What would be the best way to do it? this.finish and then this.startActivity with the activity Intent?

You can Simply use

finish();
startActivity(getIntent());

to refresh an Activity from within itself.

for those who don't want to see that blink after recreate() method simply use

 finish();
 overridePendingTransition(0, 0);
 startActivity(getIntent());
 overridePendingTransition(0, 0);

This is what I do to reload the activity after changing returning from a preference change.

@Override
protected void onResume() {

   super.onResume();
   this.onCreate(null);
}

This essentially causes the activity to redraw itself.

Updated: A better way to do this is to call the recreate() method. This will cause the activity to be recreated.

simply use

this.recreate();

this will trigger the onCreate method in the activity