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

Finish closes the whole application, this is is something i hate in Android development not finish that is fine but that they do not keep up wit ok syntax they have

startActivity(intent)

Why not

closeActivity(intent) ?