Android: Prompt user to save changes when Back button is pressed

Question

I have an activity that contains several user editable items (an EditText field, RatingBar, etc). I\'d like to prompt the user if the back/home button is pressed and change

Answer 1

I am doing the same thing that you do. I have one activity with a customer information (EditText for name, last name, email, ..., you know, EditText everywhere) and I used AsyncTask for that, and it works wonderfully.

    @Override
public void onBackPressed() 
{
            // start async task for save changes.
    new GuardandoContactoHilo().execute()
}

public void VolverAtras()
{
    super.onBackPressed();
}

public class GuardandoContactoHilo extends AsyncTask< Void, Void, Void> 
{

     private ProgressDialog saving;


    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute()
    {
        super.onPreExecute();
        saving = new ProgressDialog(cont);

        saving.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
        saving.setMessage("Saving customer ...");
        saving.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) 
    {
        super.onPostExecute(result);
        saving.dismiss();
        VolverAtras(); // go back !!
    }

    @Override
    synchronized protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) 
    {

        // do what you want to do before come back ! for example, save data ;)
        return null;
    }

}