Android: associate a method to home button of smartphone

Question

how can I associate a method to home button of smartphone? I want that checking this botton my Android app does a specific method. I read that to disable home button there i

Answer 1

Try overriding onKeyDown as such:

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME)
        // do what you need
}