Android :: Android Application Have Exit Button (or Menu Function) Or Not?
Jan 27, 2009
should an Android application have an exit button (or menu function) or not? Ok, if there's some service or other resources consuming something running in the background I think the user should have an option to make it stop. But what about an application that would just sit there, inactive? If I take a look at the standard application it seems that the Android philosophy is to keep the applications running and let the system decide when to stop and destroy an application idling in the background. I didn't recognize "exit" or "quit" options in the standard programs. On the other hand - why not let the user decide and give the option to quit some software if he knows it's currently not used. So, what's the advice here? Give even a "passive" application an exit button? Or not and just leave it to the system?
View 24 Replies
Aug 10, 2009
i want to add an exit button to the menu, but didn't see an easy way to close an application or acces all activities of an application and finish them. Is there an easy approach available?
View 11 Replies
View Related
Sep 8, 2010
I need to have a "Exit" menu items in my application,My question here is how can i just exit the app,Please throw some light on this is that possible in android if yes then how.
View 10 Replies
View Related
Nov 24, 2010
the problem is that this button doesn't exit of my app... it simply closes the current intent ant returns to the previous intent (window) of my app.... how i can do a real exit/close button? i tryed with this:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(intent);
but it doesn't works, because when i turn back into my app, the app comes in the last opened window, and not in the first window of the app, how i can do that? i need that when i re-open my app it starts on the first window of my app
View 5 Replies
View Related
Sep 24, 2010
Either exit button or back button only can be implemented in my application. But i want both the implementations in my application
View 1 Replies
View Related
Oct 31, 2010
I use a file browser to locate the APK, it installs successful and I can run it OK (when clicking "run" after install completes) However, if I then exit the application, I'm unable to see a launcher for it on my apps menu (where I would expect it, like other apps I've created) At the moment, every time I want to run the app, I first have to re-install it so I can access it, surely there must be a better way?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.jameselsey"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0"
>
<application android:icon="@drawable/globe" android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">..................
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 30, 2010
In my current application design, I have an activity class application.java (which starts on launching the application), and it does not have a layout(UI screen). I call another class called servicebind.java from the onCreate method of my 1st class. here I bind to the local server (bindServer()). i call back the application class through an intent. Once I am back to my application class, I call my activity class called welcome.java which has a layout/UI. When I run this application, I am able to see the welcome screen. But the problem is, when I click on the back button, I get a black screen with just the title on top. I have to hit back button 3 times to exit the application.
The reason I see from the logs is that, the 1st 2 activity classes (application.java and services.java) does not get destroyed unless I hit the back button. So the 1st time I hit back button, the welcome activity gets destroyed. the next back button destroys the servicebind class and final back destroys the application class. Is the reason because these classes dont have a UI to display in the onCreate method. I do not want to change my design where I bind the service in the servicebind class and call the welcome activity in the application class.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Mar 1, 2010
on intent when user press back button should exit from the application, how can i track back button and exit from the app?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 3, 2010
I'm not sure whether I need to add an exit button to my app. Is there any point to doing this? And if on exiting one activity or service is not .finish() or closed properly could this cause a lot of damage?
View 6 Replies
View Related
Jul 19, 2010
When i am trying to run the example of Maps as in http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-mapview.html, the menu button doesn't seem to work. I tried the default Maps app in the emulator and there it was working. Also i intend to add an item when a user presses that button, how can do it?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 8, 2011
I wanted to make the Menu button on my Android device open up my Application's settings and allow me to edit it when I am inside the Application.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Oct 28, 2010
I just used some great app and now I'm done, and... I want to *exit* the app. So I look for the 'exit' button.'quit' button.. nope can't find it.. !? Is there really no 'quit' button for android apps? (like in all other operating systems: the X button at the top right corner of the window) Shurely this can't be true. Only way to quit is to go to the home menu and start up a 2nd application dedicated to killing other apps and then kill app nr 1 from that?? Like buying a car that only has an 'on' switch and when i arrive at my destination, I have to open the hood and disconnect a gas lead or sometning to stop the engine.. (Or press the back button 10 times go through all documents you viewed until you reach the home screen). Isn't this like one of the basic features an OS should provide in its user interface?
View 13 Replies
View Related
May 3, 2010
What I am trying to do is emulating the "Home" button which takes one back to Android's homescreen. So here is what causes me problems: I have 3 launcher activities. The first one (which is connected to the homescreen icon) is just a (password protected) configuration activity. It will not be used by the user (just admin) One of the other 2 (both accessed via an app widget) is a questionnaire app. I'm allowing to jump back between questions via the Back button or a GUI back button as well. When the questionnaire is finished I sum up the answers given and provide a "Finish" button which should take the user back to the home screen.
For the questionnaire app I use a single activity (called ItemActivity) which calls itself (is that recursion as well when using intents?) to jump from one question to another:
Questionnaire.serializeToXML();
Intent i = new Intent().setClass(c, ItemActivity.class);
if(Questionnaire.instance.getCurrentItemNo() == Questionnaire.instance.getAmountOfItems()) {
Questionnaire.instance.setCompleted(true);
} else Questionnaire.instance.nextItem();
startActivity(i);
The final screen shows something like "Thank you for participating" as well as the formerly described button which should take one back to the homescreen. But I don't really get how to exit the Activity properly. I've e.g. used this.finish(); but this strangely brings up the "Thank you" screen again. So how can I just exit by jumping back to the homescreen?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 5, 2009
I want to know about How to exit an application.
In my application there is a button called Exit. when i click the button it should end the application. I trie with finish(). It is not working. It is closing only the current scrren. I need to close all the screens.
View 13 Replies
View Related
Feb 18, 2014
I wanna know how to exit an app using back button. For eg: hitting the back button , it should display a dialog box displaying "want to quit" with yes or no option.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Oct 17, 2010
I notice that my application continues to run in the background after I hit the home or back button. I tried calling the finish() method and it still says its running. On another note, how do I setup the keyListener to respond to the user hitting the back or home button. I tried implementing OnKeyListener and using findViewById(R.Layout.main).setOnKeyListener(this) to call finish().
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 29, 2010
How to exit the current application on a click of any button when I am in the middle of my application? finish() will only finish the current activity not all the activities.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 22, 2009
I have requirement that needs to save data to a file. During multiple Activitiy screens, I add different data to a list and finally when user is not using the app (means if user exits app by pressing "home" button or "call" button), just before exiting that app, i want to save that data of the list to a file.
coding before exiting activity screen is simple - by calling onDestory () method, but here I want not one activity but the application exit.
So my question is How do I write a code that will be executed just before application exits ? I tried created one class extends Application, and then I override onTerminate() method, but it's not get called when I exit ( pressing home button on device)
View 2 Replies
View Related
Aug 5, 2010
why droid apps don't all come with an exit button. I know you can use the back button to eventually close a program but in so many cases that can mean several taps and in the case of a browser, going back several pages. Using the home button just leave the program running and using resources. It just seems like such an obvious oversight.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Aug 11, 2010
I've created a custom gallery; however, the "Set wallpaper" button will not set the wallpaper. Here's the wallpaper.java I have. I'm just lost on how to implement OnClickListener and then set my button to use an onclicklistener like so:
CODE:................
View 1 Replies
View Related
Apr 18, 2010
Is it possible to stop all started services when the user hits the Home Button? I use:
startService(new Intent(ClassName.this, ClassName2.class));
stopService(new Intent(ClassName.this, ClassName2.class));
This means I will have to somehow add the 'stopService()' for 7+ of my app classes
I've researched this topic and I think there's 'onTerminate' but still not sure how this should be implemented.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Oct 29, 2009
Does anyone know how to handle Android HTC device Red (power) button programatically to stop my operation. I want to stop running some of my operation when user presses REd button when user is in my screen. I know for other buttons like Back button i could use "keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK" event. But what is for Power(End) Red button? I'm not getting any keycode events for Red button when i'm in my application.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Aug 17, 2010
I am trying to build a custom toggle button in Android, I want it to look like radio button but function as toggle button.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Nov 7, 2012
i update ics in spice mi355 bt in my phone status in about phn only 2.3.6 only show it bt looks are change.and menu button change to option button clockwise.hw do i knw whther ics change in phn or nt?bt file is download in our forum 1ly size is 90 mb.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Aug 10, 2013
I have an original Nexus 7 running Android 4.3. I just learned about the "Take bug report" and "Power menu bug report" method to capture screen shots and logs. Unfortunately, they don't seem to work for me.
I'm logged on with my normal Google account. When I use either method, I get the "Take bug report" popup. When I tap on Report, the popup goes away and then nothing happens - no email - nothing. I've seen a couple of other reports of this happening.
Frank
View 1 Replies
View Related
Nov 10, 2010
I have various activitys on my app. I have a configuration Activity, and i want to put a cancel button, that, when user press this button, the configuration window get's closed and turn back into the previous activity.i search in google and i find something about calling cancel or dismiss functions, but i can't call them cause this is not a dialog, it's an activity
View 1 Replies
View Related
Nov 30, 2009
I have an issue with identifying return to application after it was left using Home click. The main purpose of this is to define when do I have to display to user Type Password dialog. So, let's imaging such workflow, User works in application and decides to see what's the weather tomorrow. The User clicks Home button and is transfered to desktop. Now he goes back to My application. At this point we have to verify that our User is still the right one User by proposing him to type password. How can I identify this condition here? (returning after leaving by Home click)
View 1 Replies
View Related
Apr 13, 2010
How do you do this?
View 40 Replies
View Related
Nov 15, 2009
I tried searching for this, to no avail, but here is the situation. I was on my main Home screen and just trying to figure stuff out and when I long press the menu key it brings up the onscreen keyboard. I figured it was for contact search or something, but it did nothing when I typed...or so I thought. Now everytime I back out to the Home screen a little transparent "window" displays with letters i first typed. I cant type new letters to display or even use the backspace key to erase. Any one know what Im talking about?
View 10 Replies
View Related
Aug 18, 2010
application exit handling. My application has multiple Activity say : - EntryAct, Act1, Act2 .... Act10. When user presses home key on any of these Activities, I need to do some flag setting. Handling home key in every application Activity is not possible! Can someone tell how this can be achieved?Can't change anything in OnPause,OnStop or OnDestory of all activities Act1.
View 2 Replies
View Related
