Set Action for home button in android

Question

How I can change working of home button in android? I want to when I click on home button I do some actions and after that application should go to background. How I can do that

Answer 1

Have you tried overriding onKeyDown()

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME) {
        // ENTER CODE HERE
        return true;
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}