Android :: Video Intent - Control Back Button?
Sep 22, 2009
I'm working on an android application that plays video, by using an intent:tostart = new Intent(Intent. ACTION_ VIEW);tostart.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(movieurl), "video/*");startActivity(tostart);This works great. However, when you press the back button (on the device), the movieplayer goes back to the beginning of the movie. Only when you press back again, it goes back to my application. While the current behaviour makes some sense, I would like to know if I can change it: Is is possible to directly go back after pressing back?
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I have 3 activities in my app: Activity1 -> Activity2 -> Activity3. Inside Activity3, if the user presses Back, I would like to return to Activity2. In Activity3's onPause event, I added a finish() statement. That's probably not even necessary, but I wanted to make sure this Activity gets cleaned up. This works fine.
However, while in Activity3, if the user presses Home or starts a new app (through notification bar or some other means), I want both Activity3 and Activity2 to finish. If the user returns to this app, he should resume with Activity1.
I have figured out how to do one or the other, but I can't figure out how to handle both cases, if it's even possible. Can I trap the "Back" button in Activity3 and send a message back to Activity2 telling it not to finish()? It seems like the Activities follow the same lifecycle flow (Pause, Stop) regardless of what you do to send them to the background. Just to answer the question of why I want this behavior, imagine that Activity1 is a login screen, Activity2 is a selection screen, and Activity3 is a content screen. If I press Back from the content page, I want to be able to make a new selection. If I exit via any other means (Home, notification bar), I want the user to be "logged out".
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I want to get the Text data value from Sub-Activity back. And everything is ok. But when the Sub-activity was opened, then I just click back "button" on the phone, it throw an exception error. I found on the android NotePad life-cycle control toturial but It's hard to understand. Can someone help me? This is my code:
public class SBooks extends ListActivity {
private String title_raw;
private SBooksDbAdapter mDbHelper;private static final int ACTIVITY_SEARCH = 0;private static final int SEARCH_ID = Menu.FIRST; @Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.sbooks_list);
mDbHelper = new SBooksDbAdapter(this);
mDbHelper.open();
Create Menu Option
@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
boolean result = super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
menu.add(0, SEARCH_ID, 0, R.string.menu_search);
return result;
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
switch(item.getItemId()){
case SEARCH_ID:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, SBooksSearch.class);
startActivityForResult(intent, ACTIVITY_SEARCH);
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent){
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, intent);
switch(requestCode){
case ACTIVITY_SEARCH:
Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
title_raw = bundle.getString(SBooksDbAdapter.KEY_TITLE_RAW);
if(title_raw!=null){
Cursor cursor = mDbHelper.searchData(title_raw);
String[] from = new String[]{ SBooksDbAdapter.KEY_ROWID,
SBooksDbAdapter.KEY_TITLE, SBooksDbAdapter.KEY_LYRICS };
int[] to = new int[]{ R.id.id, R.id.title, R.id.lyrics };
SimpleCursorAdapter adapter =
new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.sbooks_row, cursor, from, to );
setListAdapter(adapter);This is my Sub-Activity:
public class SBooksSearch extends Activity {
private EditText mTextSearch;
private Button searchButton;
private SBooksDbAdapter mDbHelper;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.sbooks_search);
mTextSearch = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.text_search);
searchButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_search);
searchButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
public void onClick(View v){
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.putExtra(SBooksDbAdapter.KEY_TITLE_RAW, mTextSearch.getText().toString());
setResult(RESULT_OK, intent);
finish();
@Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState){
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
@Override
protected void onPause(){
super.onPause();
checkState();
@Override
protected void onResume(){
super.onResume();
}private void checkState() {
This is Logcat:
08-12 18:44:39.211: WARN/InputManagerService(581): Starting input on non-focused client com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@43719140 (uid=10004 pid=623)
08-12 18:44:39.510: INFO/ActivityManager(581): Displayed activity com.original.sbooks/.SBooks: 4934 ms
08-12 18:44:40.821: WARN/KeyCharacterMap(730): No keyboard for id 0
08-12 18:44:40.821: WARN/KeyCharacterMap(730): Using default keymap: /system/usr/keychars/qwerty.kcm.bin
08-12 18:44:41.412: INFO/ARMAssembler(581): generated scanline__00000177:03515104_00001A01_00000000 [ 64 ipp] (89 ins) at [0x297608:0x29776c] in 952924 ns
08-12 18:44:41.520: INFO/ARMAssembler(581): generated scanline__00000177:03515104_00000A01_00000000 [ 46 ipp] (70 ins) at [0x297798:0x2978b0] in 517061 ns
08-12 18:44:42.171: INFO/ActivityManager(581): Starting activity: Intent { comp={com.original.sbooks/com.original.sbooks.SBooksSearch} }
08-12 18:44:52.196: WARN/ActivityManager(581): Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock!
08-12 18:44:52.279: WARN/ActivityManager(581): Activity idle timeout for HistoryRecord{436bfc80 {com.original.sbooks/com.original.sbooks.SBooksSearch}}
08-12 18:44:57.350: DEBUG/dalvikvm(620): GC freed 4103 objects / 231808 bytes in 75ms
08-12 18:45:05.130: DEBUG/dalvikvm(649): GC freed 2604 objects / 150112 bytes in 88ms
08-12 18:45:10.120: DEBUG/dalvikvm(623): GC freed 2750 objects / 149592 bytes in 71ms
08-12 18:45:11.920: INFO/ActivityManager(581): Displayed activity com.original.sbooks/.SBooksSearch: 29748 ms
08-12 18:45:17.263: WARN/ActivityManager(581): Activity pause timeout for HistoryRecord{436bfc80 {com.original.sbooks/com.original.sbooks.SBooksSearch}}
08-12 18:45:26.762: WARN/ActivityManager(581): Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock!
08-12 18:45:27.272: WARN/ActivityManager(581): Activity idle timeout for HistoryRecord{435a7760 {com.original.sbooks/com.original.sbooks.SBooks}}
08-12 18:46:04.905: DEBUG/AndroidRuntime(730): Shutting down VM
08-12 18:46:04.905: WARN/dalvikvm(730): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4000fe70)
08-12 18:46:04.905: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=0, result=0, data=null} to activity {com.original.sbooks/com.original.sbooks.SBooks}: java.lang.NullPointerException
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3005)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:3047)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:112)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1721)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3948)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:782)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at com.original.sbooks.SBooks.onActivityResult(SBooks.java:111)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:3595)
08-12 18:46:04.991: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(730): at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3001)
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