Add back button to action bar

Question

I have been trying to add a back button to the action bar.

I want my view to look like this:

Answer 1

There are two ways to approach this.

Option 1: Update the Android Manifest If the settings Activity is always called from the same activity, you can make the relationship in the Android Manifest. Android will automagically show the 'back' button in the ActionBar

<activity
    android:name=".SettingsActivity"
    android:label="Setting Activity">
    <meta-data
        android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
        android:value="com.example.example.MainActivity" />
</activity>

Option 2: Change a setting for the ActionBar If you don't know which Activity will call the Settings Activity, you can create it like this. First in your activity that extends ActionBarActivity (Make sure your @imports match the level of compatibility you are looking for).

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_settings_test);
    ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
    actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
    actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}

Then, detect the 'back button' press and tell Android to close the currently open Activity.

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case android.R.id.home:
            // app icon in action bar clicked; goto parent activity.
            this.finish();
            return true;
        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

That should do it!

Answer 2

After setting

 actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);

You have to configure the parent activity in your AndroidManifest.xml

<activity
    android:name="com.example.MainActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat" />
<activity
    android:name="com.example.SecondActivity"
    android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat" >
    <meta-data
        android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
        android:value="com.example.MainActivity" />
</activity>

Look here for more information http://developer.android.com/training/implementing-navigation/ancestral.html

Answer 3

this one worked for me:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_your_activity);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    // ... other stuff
}

@Override
public boolean onSupportNavigateUp(){
    finish();
    return true;
}

The method onSupportNavigateUp() is called when you use the back button in the SupportActionBar.

Answer 4

if anyone else need the solution

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int id = item.getItemId();

    if (id == android.R.id.home) {
        onBackPressed();
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

Answer 5

Add this line in onCreate() method

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

then Override this method

 @Override
    public boolean onSupportNavigateUp(){
        finish();
        return true;
    }

Answer 6

After setting actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);

Add the following code:

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case android.R.id.home:
            // app icon in action bar clicked; goto parent activity.
            this.finish();
            return true;
        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}