background a react-native android app using back button

Question

I\'ve followed the example pattern for handling the android back button in the react-native docs and it works well. I can use the hardware back button to pop my navigation s

Answer 1

Answered my own question. The trick is to override the default back button behaviour in the MainActiviy:

public class MainActivity extends ReactActivity {

    @Override
    protected String getMainComponentName() {
        return "foo";
    }

    @Override
    public void invokeDefaultOnBackPressed() {
        // do not call super. invokeDefaultOnBackPressed() as it will close the app.  Instead lets just put it in the background.
        moveTaskToBack(true);
    }
}