How to close activity and go back to previous activity in android

Question

I have a main activity, that when I click on a button, starts a new activity, i used the following code to do so:

Intent intent = new Intent(this, SettingsAc         


        

Answer 1

You can go back to the previous activity by just calling finish() in the activity you are on. Note any code after the finish() call will be run - you can just do a return after calling finish() to fix this.

If you want to return results to activity one then when starting activity two you need:

startActivityForResults(myIntent, MY_REQUEST_CODE);

Inside your called activity you can then get the Intent from the onCreate() parameter or used

getIntent();

To set return a result to activity one then in activity two do

setResult(Activity.RESULT_OK, MyIntentToReturn);

If you have no intent to return then just say

setResult(Activity.RESULT_OK);

If the the activity has bad results you can use Activity.RESULT_CANCELED (this is used by default). Then in activity one you do

onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    // Handle the logic for the requestCode, resultCode and data returned...
}

To finish activity two use the same methods with finish() as described above with your results already set.