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 have to use this in your MainActivity

 Intent intent = new Intent(context , yourActivity);

            intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK |Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK);
            context.startActivity(intent);

The flag will start multiple tasks that will keep your MainActivity, when you call finish it will kill the other activity and get you back to the MainActivity