How to clear data from activity using device back button - android

I had created an android app which has 3 activity (A,B,C) in activity A there is 2 autocomplete textview which fetch data from database and button after selecting data in autocomplete text user press button and it goes to next activity which show listview.
Now the problem is when I press the devices back button from listview is display activity A with selected data in autotext how can I avoid the selected data when I press device back button.
Thanks for helping in advance

When you press the back button, activity A will "resume". So, in your Activity A override "onResume"...in the onResume method, clear your fields.

There is nothing with the listactivity's back button as you are trying to clear you field in the previous activity. As you are not finishing your previous activity while creating the list activity so the previous activity is not changing. So while you are returing from the list you are saying the same data as before. to do so as #Dave suggested you could have done the clearing in the oResume method or onPause method. But there is a problem. If you clear your data in onResume or in onPause you data will be cleared for other pausing or resuming reasons like pressing home, or for other applications etc. So you can do any of two
Option 1:
clear the data of the previous activity when you are starting the list activity
or
Option 2:
instead of startActivity call startActiviyForResult and also override onActiviyResult method. So there you can detect when you are returning from list activity. Then clear the data.

To deal with this problem, I would simply override onBackPressed() method, and in there, I would have cleared activity stack as there is no logical explanation to keep activities in memory, and then start a fresh intent to your original activity.
Here is code.
#Override
public void onBackPressed() {
Intent intent = new Intent(this, Activity_A.class); //I suppose they are in same package
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(intent);
}
I hope it helps.

protected void onResume(){
super.onResume();
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
this also works well..

you should implement startActivityforResut
When you come back to this activity on result you can clear the data

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When I click back button goto previous activity from current activity android

When iam moving current activity to list activity in list activity have 8 items and in list activity have add button widget when I added one item using add button so total 9 items in list activity. Here my problem is when I click on back button my application not moving to previous activity showing list activity with 8 items after click again back button moving previous activity how to solve this issue without using intent
override onBackPressed() method the way you want.
When you use realtime database like Firebase at the moment you will have updated list. I think when you click on button you are opening new activity and don't finish last one. So you come back to last view again. Of course if you send your code, you will get proper answer.
You should override method onBackPressed() in the activity where your back button is not working correctly for you:
#Override
public void onBackPressed()
{
finish();
super.onBackPressed();
}
I think that adding method call finish() should solve your problem.

How can I preserve previous android intent value when I press the back or up button?

I have a list view in the previous intent and when I tap on that it go to the next activity. Now when I press the back button or up button it comes back to the previous activity. But when I tap the list item again it give me run time Unexpectedly app closed error. Please help me.
It's hard to answer without code, but maybe it's because you don't finish your next activity when you press the back button
It's because of Activity life cycle...
When you go to the next activity then current activity is paused for you. when you press the back or up button then your previous activity resume.
That's why you have to define your code in onResume() method also where you got stuck. because when you come back onResume method is called
You can try override onBackPressed method in your activities :
#Override
public void onBackPressed() {
// put a breakpoint here and check your listview/activities states
//super.onBackPressed();
}

Android back pressed without refresh activity

I have 2 activities which one activity leads to the other activity.
The first activity present a listview and the items click leads to the second activity.
When I click the back button I get back to the first activity but the list reload and scroll up to the first item. I want the list to stay at its place after I get back to it.
If you call finish() in activity A when openig the new Activity B on back press you will call onCreate() of activity A to avoid this avoid calling finish() in activity A in your onItemClickListner()of activity A and record tge position of tge click in Activity A, in which case calling the back press in Activity B will cll for tge onResume() in activity A where in you could call For a direct scroll:
getListView().setSelection(<position>);
Or For a smooth scroll:
getListView().smoothScrollToPosition(<position>);
when you press back you call oncreate() on that activity so everything reload
you could use :
getListView().smoothScrollToPosition(yourpostion);
and think about using fragments for another way around it .
and recyclerview is advised .
If you don't call finish() on Activity A, even if you go to Activity B and come back, Activity A should not call the whole onCreate() again.
If you take a look at the life cycle of Activities, it will put Activity A in onPause() and probably onStop() depending on what you are doing on Activity B and how you defined launchMode in AndroidManifest.xml.
So when you are calling startActivity(..), don't call finish(). Otherwise it will load everything again to draw the Activity A.
Another possible way is using
#Override
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onSaveInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
..
}
OR you can use SharedPreference.
Once fetching data from Parse.com is over (like onPostExecute() of AsyncTask), you can read the data passed from Activity B to relocate the user to the list where they were.
EDIT:
Read this article about how to "come back" to the activity you were in, too.

Acitivity Lifecycle (moving back and forth between Activities)

As Android newbie I started to wonder about the Activity lifecycle. I'm having an Activity that loads a list of Persons and displays them. Upon the click of a Person I want to open another Activity showing the details of that Person. I'm currently doing this by creating an Intent on the "PersonDetailActivity" which I then start. So far so good. On the PersonDetail page I would like to have a menu action to go back to the Person list. I again applied the same technique, meaning an Intent that brings me back to the PersonListActivity.
Now I started to wonder what returning to the PersonListActivity means. Will a new instance get created and will I have to reload the persons that it displays in the list? Can you come back to the same instance, avoiding having to reload the list again? Do you then have to pass a pointer to yourself via the intent to the other Activity?
So when will and Activity be re-instantiated and when will it not. Any hints or suggestions are more than welcome. Maybe there are some patterns to be applied for these back and forth menu actions that I'm not yet aware of.
Thanks,
Vincent
Yes,,. Call finish() in second Activity instead of starting new Activity..
There is basically something called Activity stack which stores all Activities in the order they were started.. so if start new Actvity , that sits on top of the stack and preveous one gets below it.. when you call finish the Activity is poped out..
if you don't want to call finish() correct waht ever you were doing then add flag ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP in manifest for the 1st Activity..
Basically if you just call the finish() method on your PersonDetailActivity
PersonDetailActivity.this.finish();
it will activate the onResume() method from the Activity that is on the top of the finished one, which here would be your PersonsActivity. You can specify in your onResume() method what you want to perform when turning back there.

back pressed should bring the refreshed activity

Hey guys
Activity A fires intent on activity B and then on back pressed of activity B the saved state of Activity A is shown.
I want to show the updated / refreshed state of activity A when back pressed on Activity B
Then refresh your data in onResume() of activity A.
You should override onResume() method in your Activity A and update state there.
If you're using multiple different activities you can also use startActivityForResult() and then perform post-result processing by overriding the onActivityResult method. This also gives you the option to perform different tasks based on the result and the activity that the user was just returned from.

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