how to override action bar back button in android?

Question

I want to customize the activity back button in action bar, not in hard key back button. I have overriden the onBackPressed() method. It works with my emulator

Answer 1

If you want to return to the previous instance of an Activity by pressing of ActionBar home button, without recreating it, you can override getParentActivityIntent method to use the one from the back stack:

@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN)
@Override
public Intent getParentActivityIntent() {
      return super.getParentActivityIntent().addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
}

EDIT:
Also you can achieve the same result by
setting the launchMode of your parent activity to singleTop.
So setandroid:launchMode="singleTop" to parent activity in your manifest.
Or you can use flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP with the UP intent.
reference: Providing Up Navigation