What is Activity.finish() method doing exactly?

Question

I\'m developing android applications for a while, and followed a lot of posts about activity life cycle, and application\'s life cycle.

I know Activity.finish

Answer 1

My 2 cents on @K_Anas answer. I performed a simple test on finish() method. Listed important callback methods in activity life cycle

1. Calling finish() in onCreate(): onCreate() -> onDestroy()
2. Calling finish() in onStart() : onCreate() -> onStart() -> onStop() -> onDestroy()
3. Calling finish() in onResume(): onCreate() -> onStart() -> onResume() -> onPause() -> onStop() -> onDestroy()

What I mean to say is that counterparts of the methods along with any methods in between are called when finish() is executed.

eg:

 onCreate() counter part is onDestroy()
 onStart() counter part is onStop()
 onPause() counter part is onResume()