onStop() not getting called when I press the back button

Question

Is this normal.

The docs say

\"The onStart() and onStop() methods can be called multiple times, as the activity alternates between being visible and hidden to th

Answer 1

If you still need those to get called for your activity instance when a new instance is created, you can use this hacky solution. Just implement your logic in #doStopOperation() and #doDestroyOperation() instead of #onStop() and #onDestroy() - and be sure to call super#onStop() and super#onDestroy() from your overridden methods. Obviously when extending this activity, you don't need to extend the AppCompatActivity, you can use the regular activity instead. This works for me in a production build, so hopefully it will help.

I guess you could write a timer hack as well to invoke stop and destroy even when no new instance is created, but that's up to you.