I have been using finish() for back button presses to go back to previous activity and its working fine but it is not working as expected for this specific scenario.
Here are a list of my activities and its functions:
Activity A - Show online forum topics
Activity B - Show the comments of a forum topic
Activity C - Post a new comment
After a user post a new comment, he will be directed to activity B.
Issue:
When i click on back button on Activity B, it will go back to Activity C, because it was my previous activity.
Activity A -> Activity B -> Activity C -> Activity B -> Activity C -> Activity B -> Activity A
Expectation
I want the user to go back to activity A from activity B at all cause.
Activity A -> Activity B -> Activity C -> Activity B -> Activity A
I tried using intent to only direct Activity B to A upon back pressed, but it is reloading the data on Activity A which i do not want.
Codes I tried:
case android.R.id.home:
finish();
return true;
//this works if i am only going back and forth one activity
case android.R.id.home:
Intent i = new Intent(ActivityB.this, ActivityA.class);
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
i.putExtra("forumLink", forumLink);
i.putExtra("forumTitle", forumTitle);
startActivity(i);
//this refreshes Activity A data
Call finish() on Activity C before going from C to B.
You can make Activity A as parent of B ,and B as parent of C