Finish old activity and start a new one or vice versa

Question

I know, that I get the same result with both code snippets

finish();
startActivity(newActivity);

and

startActivity(newActiv         


        

Answer 1

The animation is clearly different (at least on 4.1 onwards). Calling finish() first starts to fade away the first activity earlier and you can briefly see a black background before the new activity fades in. Calling startActivity() first fades in the new activity on top of the old one and the black background is not visible.