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

I believe your second activity is probably not linked to your main activity as a child activity. Check your AndroidManifest.xml file and see if the entry for your child activity includes a android:parentActivityName attribute. It should look something like this:

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