Android: How to go back previous Activity

Question

I have four activities

ListActivity
Itemdetail_Activity
record1_Act
record2_act.

I can go from ListActivity -> record1_Act and from ListActivity <-record1_Act properly but when I want to go from Itemdetail_Activity -> record2_act and return back from Itemdetail_Activity <- record2_act it always goes record2_act to ListActivity.

I even used i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK); but it does not work. How to solve this issues?

Here is my code

Intent i = new Intent(record2_act.this, Itemdetail_Activity.class);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
startActivity(i);

Intent i = new Intent(record1_Act.this, ListActivity.class);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
startActivity(i);
finish();

Check [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/4038637/3843476) You may find your answer. — Gagan, Nov 02 '15 at 06:34
Please enter the correct flow which you desire. Or enter the whole code. — DroidAks, Nov 02 '15 at 06:36
@DroidAks : I have Activity 1 , 2, 3, 4 i can go 1 -> 2 and 1 4 and return back to 3 — androidTag, Nov 02 '15 at 06:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 02 '15 at 07:12

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After starting activity remove finish() call because it will clear that activity from stack and i see you have used finish in your code. also you do not need to set these flags.

answered Nov 02 '15 at 07:12

Arslan Ashraf

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 02 '15 at 06:55

In activity 4, implement onBackPressed() as,

@Override
public void onBackPressed()
{
 Intent i = new Intent(4.this, 3.class);
 startActivity(i);
}

call this method if you have any back button. And if you want to link the backpress for every activity you need to implement onBackPressed() method in every activity.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 02 '15 at 07:20

you can call onBackPressed() if previous activity not finished also you can use :

this.finish();
// Or
Activity currentActivity = this;
currentActivity.finish();

and if previous you finished activity you have to track user in activities and make list of activities, then move to :

activitiList.get(activityList.size() - 2);
// activityList.size() - 1 is last activity and activityList.size() - 2 is previous activity

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 02 '15 at 07:58

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Do check if ItemDetailsActivity is NOT calling finish()

answered Nov 02 '15 at 07:58

jily

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Android: How to go back previous Activity

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