Android :: Does Pressing Back Always Cause Activity To Finish()?

May 10, 2010

I've heard that pressing the back button will essentially cause the current Activity to finish(). Is this always the case? Seems like it would be with the way it pops the Activity off the stack.

The one situation I'm not so sure about is when the root Activity in a Task has back pressed. I'm currently experiencing a very weird effect, described as follows:

On loading my application, the first Activity is for initialization, and once it finishes, it calls my main Activity (a TabActivity). This first init activity has android:noHistory="true" set in the Manifest so pressing Back from my main Activity won't go back to that. It goes to the Launcher. When I click on my App in the Launcher a second time, the initialization activity loads again, and loads the main Activity when done. Almost immediately after, it loads a second instance of my main Activity. But ONLY after the Application has already been run once, and was exited by pressing BACK from the main Activity. It does it every subsequent time until I force quit the app or load a new version from the IDE.

Based on this, I am suspecting some kind of Activity instance is lying around and being reused, since it only happens on the second+ time I run the application (and exit with BACK -- using HOME just returns to the last state of the app, no big deal).

Android :: Does pressing Back always cause Activity to finish()?


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Jun 29, 2010

I currently have an Activity that when it gets displayed a Notification will also get displayed in the Notification bar.

This is so that when the User presses home and the Activity gets pushed to the background they can get back to the Activity via the Notification.

The problem arises when a User presses the back button, my Activity gets destroyed but the Notification remains as I want the user to be able to press back but still be able to get to the Activity via the Notification. But when a USER tries this I get Null Pointers as its trying to start a new activity rather than bringing back the old one.

So essentially I want the Back button to act the exact same as the Home button and here is how I have tried so far:

CODE:.........

However the above code still seems to allow my Activity to be destroyed, How can I stop my Activity from being destroyed when the back button is pressed?

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May 6, 2009

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Jul 15, 2010

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Nov 13, 2010

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Aug 14, 2010

With this sample code, the activity is told to finish, but continues execution afterwards and displays the message. I'm trying to understand why this happens. The only fix I can think of is to place 'return' after finish.

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Jun 29, 2010

I currently have an Activity that when it gets displayed a Notification will also get displayed in the Notification bar.

This is so that when the User presses home and the Activity gets pushed to the background they can get back to the Activity via the Notification.

The problem arises when a User presses the back button, my Activity gets destroyed but the Notification remains as I want the user to be able to press back but still be able to get to the Activity via the Notification. But when a USER tries this I get Null Pointers as its trying to start a new activity rather than bringing back the old one.

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CODE:..........

However the above code still seems to allow my Activity to be destroyed, How can I stop my Activity from being destroyed when the back button is pressed?

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Apr 27, 2010

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May 1, 2010

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Oct 8, 2010

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Mar 19, 2010

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Aug 16, 2010

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Sep 7, 2010

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Apr 12, 2009

I've got an application that has (among other things) three Activities, let's call them A, B, and C. A is the main navigation point for the entire application, and launches B and C directly using startActivity(). They work fine that way. However, when I call C from inside B, I get a strange problem. The code for launching Activity C is exactly the same in both places. The problem is the hardware back button. In the emulator, it takes two presses of the back button in order to close Activity C and come back to B. On a G1, it takes 3 or 4 presses. Upon seeing this, I implemented the usual suspects in C - onPause(), onStop(), and onDestroy(), and onResume() in B. When I press the back button from C and it doesn't work, I get onPause(), onStop(), onDestroy () - in that order, but nothing happens. When it works (on press 3 or 4 on the G1), I get onPause(), then onResume() in B, then onStop() and onDestroy().

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Jul 23, 2009

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Mar 21, 2010

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Nov 5, 2009

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Sep 14, 2010

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Nov 22, 2010

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CODE:.............

And

CODE:...................

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Mar 30, 2010

My child activity X is called from Parent activity P through startActivity(intent). I want to close P when X called its finish() method. I override a method finishFromChild(Activity child) in P and called finish() in it. But this functions (finishFromChild(Activity child)) is not being called after X finish() Is it a known bug or I am missing some thing? I googled and also searched the groups but no help.

An alternative could be... using StartActivityForResult() and a "fake" onActivityResult, where I can finish the parent activity, but this way is quite bad, i think...

I prefer the first one, if it would work....

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Apr 26, 2010

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CODE:...................

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Sep 10, 2010

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Jun 17, 2010

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Jan 21, 2010

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Nov 12, 2010

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When my code runs and activity D returns some result, A will catch a RESULT_CANCELED on onActivityResult(), even if RESULT_OK is returned in D. I guess the RESULT_CANCELED is from activity B, which has been terminated before D returns a result, rather than from D.

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Jul 29, 2010

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Feb 5, 2010

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Nov 13, 2010

i am new to android. i am showing Intent.ACTION_DIAL when my application starts..but when i clik back button it shows a activity page and again press back button it finishes the activity.i want when application starts dialler shown and if user cliks back button it calls finish() method

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