I have an app that opens a web view and uses a javascript interface to play audio on my Android App. I want the app to close if you hit the back button, which should be happening automatically, but it's not.
The only 2 activities I have are the MainActivity and the WebAppInterface. It's possible that the back button is closing the main activity, but the WebAppInterface for the web view (that also plays the audio) isn't closing when the back button is pressed, but I'm not sure.
Any advice? I would post the code, but there's nothing to see here. A note, I never call
finish();
anywhere in the app, and maybe I should?
I want the app to close if you hit the back button
What your users want is for the music to stop when the user hits the back button. Presumably, you will do that by the same sort of mechanism that you used to start the music in the first place.
A note, I never call finish(); anywhere in the app, and maybe I should?
This happens automatically when the BACK button is pressed, assuming you have not done anything to interfere with it (e.g., overrode onBackPressed() and failed to chain to the superclass).
You can can call finish when you start the WebAppInterface from MainActivity.
Like:
Intent i = new Intent(this, WebAppInterface.class);
startActivity(i);
finish();
This way when you call finish on the WebAppInterface, it won't go back to the MainActivity instead it will close like the MainActivity does.
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On the Android dev page, it says pressing the "Home" or "Overview" button does not invoke onDestroy,
but in my app, it keeps calling onDestroy. Are there any clues?
(detail situation below)
I've built a simple app that switches from the main activity to a second activity,
but if I press the "Home" or "Overview" button on the second activity, the onDestroy gets called.
So when I go back to my app again, it shows the main activity, not the second activity.
Is this normal?
Should I save the state if I want to go back to the last activity (not the main activity) after pressing the Home or the Overview button and coming back to my app?
Android dev page that I read:
If a new activity or dialog appears in the foreground, taking focus and completely covering the activity in progress, the covered activity loses focus and enters the Stopped state. The system then, in rapid succession, calls onPause() and onStop().
and
Note: When the user taps the Overview or Home button, the system behaves as if the current activity has been completely covered.
So it is supposed to invoke only onPause and onStop, not onDestroy, isn't it?
Finally I found the culprit!
the problem was that I set android:noHistory="true" on the second activity, in the AndroidManifest.xml file.
Making this option true let the activity not leave the history,
so if another activity comes to the foreground and the user pushes the back button, the previous activity(noHistory=true) does not show up.
Similarly, if the user pushes the Home or the Overview button, then the user tries to come back to our app, the last activity(noHistory=true) does not show up either.
You have to put the Code in your Question or we can't help you.
Maybe you are calling finish() in MainActivity after you call startActivity(MainActivity.this, SecondActivity.class) ?
Use the edit-function and show us your code then we can help you more.
I am calling one activity on click of status bar notification which is having a Complete button. on click of btn. i have folllowing code -
public void completeTask(){
taskDBAdapter.deleteReminder(rowId);
taskDBAdapter.close();
Intent intent = new Intent(this, TaskManagerActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
finish();
}
whhen i click complete btn new activity (TaskManagerActivity) gets opened properly.But if i reopen my application it still tries to open this activity and not my default landing activity. Any help on this.??
EDIT -
I have tried repositioning my finish() statement . Still its not working.
EDIT 1.1 -
Ok I will provide some details here. Assume my app has two activities
Main Activity
Notification Activity
My app create some notification to display on Status bar. So as soon as i click on status bar Notification actvty will open. Now there is a button called Complete on click of which the code given will fire and main activity (in the code TaskManagerActivity.class) will open. But after I press back button in my app and again reopen it , it opens the notification activity when it should have fired the main activity (as it is launching activity).
Thanks,
Ray
That's the default way android functions. If you press the home button and then open your app again, it will restore the apps previous state (unless it has killed the apps processes and activities due to memory constraints). So you are not actually restarting your app but only restoring it.
If you wanna quit the app, then press the back button. Now when you re-open the app, the original activity will be launched.
Do not modify this behavior. It is the default system behavior and users expect it to work this way. Your app is fine :-)
- First of all the behavior which you are experiencing is the way Android is made to function, moreover when a user gets a call while this app is open, after finishing the app he will definitely want to get back to the state where he left the application.
Still if you want it that way, here it is.....
- Make sure your application has only single instance of it running, by using android:launchMode="singleTask", or android:launchMode="singleInstance"
- Then finish() your Activity at onPause().
#Override
void onPause()
{
super.onPause();
finish();
}
How to complete the application when pressed buttons Home and Back? Provided that in my memory holds many pictures.
When pressed on the Back button - application restarts... When pressed on the Home button - quit application, but when it restart - does not start Splashstsreen.
Hard to see without code but it sounds like your activity is resuming rather then starting from scratch (as it should behave). It sounds like it's behaving correctly in that case. If you insist in wanting your application to truly quit after the back button is clicked perhaps you can override onBackPressed() then have your Activity call its finish() method.
I don't think it's good programming practice to fiddle and interfering with the activities lifecycle. It's the OS responsibility to manage the lifecycle, including pause and finish activities.
Instead you should use other methods to handle your problem with not showing splash screen, these methods are onResume and maybe also onStart(). Also you should get familiar with the activity lifecycle(link submitted by #ss1271).
Press Home will let the activity to enter onPause(). however, if you insist to quit the application when press HOME, which is obviously not a good practise, you can do like this:
Override onPause() and onBackPressed()
add finish(); to these methods.
I am sure by adding finish(); to onBackPressed() will quit the app when Back button pressed, but I haven't tried on Home.
Please refer to Activity Lifecycle for more info.
Im connected to a chat server which gives me messages i print out in a textview. This continues when the user leaves the application by pressing the home key etc etc. I would like to close all streams if the user goes back with the phones back button to the previous activity. Problem is that onStop() and onPause() are both called independent of if the Home key was pressed or the back key. Its just called when the activity loses focus or visibility, doesnt matter which way it happened.
How do i find out if the back key was pressed, and not home?
You can implement your own version of onBackPressed(). That way you'll know every time it's pressed and can do what ever you need to in that callback. So do something like this:
public void onBackPressed(){
//Do the stuff you want to do
//Then call the parent class version function to allow it to do any other stuff
// that needs to happen as well.
super.onBackPressed();
}
I am developing an Android application. I want to quit my application but application should be in running state in background. Whenever I click on application application should start from last quit point. I dont want to login again.
The same thing is happening when I press home button. But I want to implement similar functionality like Home button on my own button event. How should I proceed with that??
Though I have finished all other activities, still I need to login again. When I finish the activity my session ends there. And on next app start with login screen.
Whereas in case of home button click, it keeps my session and on next app start my app check onResume() event where I am checking whether session exist or not. If session is there I can enter directly into my account.
So Anybody have any idea what exactly android does when we press home button.
The best way I know is something like in your scenario where you want to quit:
Save the login credentials on login and clear on log out.
When your app launches check for credentials and if it is there then you should login without asking user.
The above process will not bring your last activity but the activity which you show after login.
To bring back the last activity where you quit, you can use moveTasktoback(true) as it will put your app in the background the same when you press Home key but it's behaviour will not remain constant as android can kill your app whenever it will require the memory.
You mean login to a web app? WebView saves cookie information application-wide regardless of activity.
Otherwise use a static variable or singleton class to hold any session state and on activity start, check the static variable or singleton class for any state else redirect them to the login screen.
You can call moveTaskToBack on your Activity.
create a button where you want to pause(i mean in which activity) the application. And write the code like below. This will pause your application.
button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
moveTaskToBack(true);
}
});