Android Go back to previous activity

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I want to do something simple on android app   How is it possible to go back to a previous activity    What code do I need to go back to previous activity

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Start the second activity using intent  either use startActivity or startActivityForResult according to your requirements   Now when user press back button  the current activity on top will be closed and the previous will be shown    Now Lets say you have two activities  one for selecting some settings for the user  like language  country etc  and after selecting it  the user clicks on Next button to go to the login form  for example    Now if the login is unsuccessful  then the user will be on the login activity  what if login is successful     If login is successful  then you have to start another activity  It means a third activity will be started  and still there are two activities running  In this case  it will be good to use startActivityForResult  When login is successful  send OK data back to first activity and close login activity  Now when the data is received  then start the third activity and close the first activity by using finish

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All new activities intents by default have back previous behavior  unless you have coded a finish   on the calling activity

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Android activities are stored in the activity stack  Going back to a previous activity could mean two things    You opened the new activity from another activity with startActivityForResult  In that case you can just call the finishActivity   function from your code and it ll take you back to the previous activity  Keep track of the activity stack  Whenever you start a new activity with an intent you can specify an intent flag like FLAG ACTIVITY REORDER TO FRONT or FLAG ACTIVITY PREVIOUS IS TOP  You can use this to shuffle between the activities in your application  Haven t used them much though  Have a look at the flags here  http   developer android com reference android content Intent html   As mentioned in the comments  if the activity is opened with startActivity   then one can close it with finish    If you wish to use the Up button you can catch that in onOptionsSelected MenuItem item  method with checking the item ID against android R id home unlike R id home as mentioned in the comments

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if you want to go to just want to go to previous activity use   finish      OR  onBackPressed      if you want to go to second activity or below that use following   intent   new Intent MyFourthActivity this   MySecondActivity class   intent addFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY CLEAR TOP     Bundle is optional Bundle bundle   new Bundle    bundle putString  MyValue1   val1   intent putExtras bundle     end Bundle startActivity intent

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You can explicitly call onBackPressed is the easiest way Refer Go back to previous activity for details

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Just try this in   first activity  Intent mainIntent   new Intent Activity1 this  Activity2 class   this startActivity mainIntent     In your second activity   Override public void onBackPressed         this finish

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If you have setup correctly the AndroidManifest xml file with activity parent  you can use    NavUtils navigateUpFromSameTask this     Where this is your child activity

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Override  public boolean onOptionsItemSelected MenuItem item          int id   item getItemId           if   id    android R id home               finish              return true                 return super onOptionsItemSelected item        Try this it works both on toolbar back button as hardware back button

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Add this in your onCLick   method  it will go back to your previous activity     finish      or You can use this  It worked perfectly for me    Override   public boolean onOptionsItemSelected MenuItem item      int id   item getItemId           if   id    android R id home              finish             return true              return super onOptionsItemSelected item

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There are few cases to go back to your previous activity   Case 1  if you want take result back to your previous activity then  ActivityA java   Intent intent   new Intent ActivityA this  FBHelperActivity class                  startActivityForResult intent 2     FBHelperActivity java   Intent returnIntent   new Intent     setResult RESULT OK  returnIntent    finish      Case 2   ActivityA --  FBHelperActivity---- ActivityA  ActivityA java   Intent intent   new Intent ActivityA this  FBHelperActivity class                  startActivity intent     FBHelperActivity java  after getting of result call finish     By this way your second activity will finish and because   you did not call finish   in your first activity then  automatic first activity is in back ground  will visible

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Besides all the mentioned answers  their is still an alternative way of doing this  lets say you have two classes   class A and class B   Class A you have made some activities like checkbox select  printed out some data and intent to class B   Class B  you would like to pass multiple values to class A and maintain the previous state of class A  you can use  try this alternative method or download source code to demonstrate this  http   whats-online info science-and-tutorials 125 Android-maintain-the-previous-state-of-activity-on-intent    or  http   developer android com reference android content Intent html

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Got the same problem and   finish     OR super onBackPressed      worked fine for me  both worked same  but no luck with return

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Just this  super onBackPressed

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First  thing you need to keep in mind that  if you want to go back to a previous activity  Then don t call finish   method when goes to another activity using Intent   After that you have two way to back from current activity to previous activity   Simply call  finish   under button click listener  Or Override the following method to back using system back button      Override public void onBackPressed         super onBackPressed

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Just write on click finish    It will take you to the previous Activity

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Are you wanting to take control of the back button behavior   You can override the back button  to go to a specific activity  via one of two methods   For Android 1 6 and below    Override public boolean onKeyDown int keyCode  KeyEvent event         if  keyCode    KeyEvent KEYCODE BACK  amp  amp  event getRepeatCount      0               do something on back          return true             return super onKeyDown keyCode  event       Or if you are only supporting Android 2 0 or greater    Override public void onBackPressed            do something on back      return      For more details  http   android-developers blogspot com 2009 12 back-and-other-hard-keys-three-stories html

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Override public void onBackPressed         super onBackPressed        and if you want on button click go back then simply put   bbsubmit setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener          Override     public void onClick View v            onBackPressed

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Try Activity finish    This is more or less what the back button does by default

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intent addFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY CLEAR TOP     This will get you to a previous activity keeping its stack and clearing all activities after it from the stack   For example  if stack was A- B- C- D and you start B with this flag  stack will be A- B

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Just call these method to finish current activity or to go back by onBackPressed  finish      OR  onBackPressed

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I suggest the NavUtils navigateUpFromSameTask     it s easy and very simple  you can learn it from the google developer Wish I could help you

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You can try this    Override public boolean onKeyDown int keyCode  KeyEvent event        if  keyCode    KeyEvent KEYCODE BACK  amp  amp  event getRepeatCount      0             finish            return true            return super onKeyDown keyCode  event

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Try this is act as you have to press the back button finish    super onBackPressed

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