Intercepting the back button

Question

I\'m writing an application which will have two Activities, when the user presses the back button on the second activity a dialog should pop up asking the user to confirm th

Answer 1

Simply override the onKeyDown(int, KeyEvent) method in your activity and look for the back button. Return true so that the event is consumed.

public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
        //Do something here
        return true;
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}