How to implement the Android ActionBar back button?

Question

I have an activity with a listview. When the user click the item, the item \"viewer\" opens:

List1.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
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Answer 1

Following Steps are much enough to back button:

Step 1: This code should be in Manifest.xml

<activity android:name=".activity.ChildActivity"
        android:parentActivityName=".activity.ParentActivity"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait">
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
            android:value=".activity.ParentActivity" /></activity>

Step 2: You won't give

finish();

in your Parent Activity while starting Child Activity.

Step 3: If you need to come back to Parent Activity from Child Activity, Then you just give this code for Child Activity.

startActivity(new Intent(ParentActivity.this, ChildActivity.class));

Answer 2

AndroidManifest file:

    <activity android:name=".activity.DetailsActivity">
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
            android:value="br.com.halyson.materialdesign.activity.HomeActivity" />
    </activity>

add in DetailsActivity:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);   
    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}

it's work :]

Answer 3

https://stackoverflow.com/a/46903870/4489222

To achieved this, there are simply two steps,

Step 1: Go to AndroidManifest.xml and in the add the parameter in tag - android:parentActivityName=".home.HomeActivity"

example :

 <activity
    android:name=".home.ActivityDetail"
    android:parentActivityName=".home.HomeActivity"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait" />

Step 2: in ActivityDetail add your action for previous page/activity

example :

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
   switch (item.getItemId()) {
      case android.R.id.home: 
          onBackPressed();
          return true;
   }
   return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);}
}

Answer 4

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

in onCreated method for the new apis.

Answer 5

Make sure your the ActionBar Home Button is enabled in the Activity:

Android, API 5+:

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
     ...
     super.onBackPressed();
}

ActionBarSherlock and App-Compat, API 7+:

@Override
public void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    ...
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}

Android, API 11+:

@Override
public void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    ...
    getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}

Example MainActivity that extends ActionBarActivity:

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        // Back button
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case android.R.id.home: 
            // API 5+ solution
            onBackPressed();
            return true;

        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
        }
    }
}

This way all the activities you want can have the backpress.

Android, API 16+:

http://developer.android.com/training/implementing-navigation/ancestral.html

AndroidManifest.xml:

<application ... >
    ...
    <!-- The main/home activity (it has no parent activity) -->
    <activity
        android:name="com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity" ...>
        ...
    </activity>
    <!-- A child of the main activity -->
    <activity
        android:name="com.example.myfirstapp.DisplayMessageActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_display_message"
        android:parentActivityName="com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity" >
        <!-- The meta-data element is needed for versions lower than 4.1 -->
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
            android:value="com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity" />
    </activity>
</application>

Example MainActivity that extends ActionBarActivity:

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        // Back button
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
        // Respond to the action bar's Up/Home button
        case android.R.id.home:
            NavUtils.navigateUpFromSameTask(this);
            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

Answer 6

Android Annotations:

@OptionsItem(android.R.id.home)
void homeSelected() {
    onBackPressed();
}

Source: https://github.com/excilys/androidannotations