Override back button to act like home button

Question

On pressing the back button, I\'d like my application to go into the stopped state, rather than the destroyed state.

In the Android docs it states:

Answer 1

I've tried all the above solutions, but none of them worked for me. The following code helped me, when trying to return to MainActivity in a way that onCreate gets called:

Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP is the key.

  @Override
  public void onBackPressed() {
      Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
      intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
      startActivity(intent);
  }