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How to completely destroy activity on back pressed?

When I press back in my activity , it calls the onSaveInstanceState() and saves the "bundle savedInstanceState" which is right. But I want to destroy it or set it to null only when I press back button or on destroying activity

I just need onSaveInstanceState() inside my activity for configuration changes.

I think I need to use onBackPressed() but what should I put in it ???

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onBackPressed();
}

Edit :

Lets say I have an activity contains a list when I click an item on the list the activity I mentioned above will start.

My second activity is a master/detail flow activity, When I click an item on the list of this activity it will update the detail's fragment (which is a viewpager here ) and it will save the current choice of the list.

Now when I press back button on second activity, it goes back to the list activity, again if I click a list item it will goes to second activity with the choice I had before pressing back. ( it's kinda save the choice through back stack )

But I noticed it has nothing to do with savedinstancestate, My second activity will not destroy through back button it will detach and then attach like fragments.

I want to completely destroy second activity when the back button is pressed.

Edit 2 :

When i even close my application through back button and launch it again, and then go to second activity, I see my last state and the item I clicked. ( I used setChoiceMod(...single) on the list )

Thanks for your help.

Solution

  • I noticed that the variables I defined in the second activity, is saving their values (that I changed in activity) through back stack and even closing application wouldn't delete them.

    The variables :

    static int mcurchoice ;
static int mcurtab ;

    I solved my problem by setting them to 0 in onBackPressed() method :

    mcurchoice = 0;
mcurtab = 0;

    can someone explain in comments how they will save their values through activity's destroy .?