Action bar Back button not working

Question

with the help of these Android Docs.I am trying to do a action bar Back button.I get an Action Bar Back Button like these below image:

Answer 1

Use on SupportNavigateUp() method and call onBackPressed in this method.

Answer 2

None of the answers provided here worked for me. I had to put the switch inside the onMenuItemSelected method. I'm aware this is not what is stated in the Android documentation, but still, it worked, so I just thought I'd leave this here for people who run into the same issue. My problem involved an Activity instead of a Fragment though, but that should be pretty much the same.

class FooActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // ...

        getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
        getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case android.R.id.home:
                NavUtils.navigateUpFromSameTask(this);
                return true;
        }

        return false;
    }
}

Answer 3

onCreate

{
    ...
            Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
            setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
            resetActionBar();
    ...
 }


public void resetActionBar()
    {
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
        getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
    }

 @Override
          public void onBackPressed() {
            FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
            int count = fm.getBackStackEntryCount();
            if(count == 0) {
                // Do you want to close app?
                showDialog();
            }else{
                super.onBackPressed();
            }
        }


    @Override
        public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
            // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
            // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
            // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
            int id = item.getItemId();
            Log.i("coming", "comming");
            //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
            if(id==android.R.id.home){
                if (getSupportFragmentManager().getBackStackEntryCount() > 0)
                    onBackPressed();
                else
                    drawerLayout.openDrawer(navigationView);
                return  true;
            }

            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
        }

Answer 4

Best and easy answer is add the parent activity name in Manifest file, so Actionbar back button will work.

For that under that Activity tag of Manifest File use android:parentActivityName=".MyCustomParentActivity"

Answer 5

You have just to add the following line to the activity in the manifest.xml. The parent activity is the activity to which you want to go back.

    android:parentActivityName=".activities.MainActivity"

Answer 6

To me, I had to set mDrawerToggle.setToolbarNavigationClickListener(...) to a listener that triggers the back action. Otherwise it does nothing. This is what the source code of ActionBarDrawerToggle looks like:

toolbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
  @Override
  public void onClick(View v) {
    if (mDrawerIndicatorEnabled) {
      toggle();
    } else if (mToolbarNavigationClickListener != null) {
      mToolbarNavigationClickListener.onClick(v);
    }
  }
});

So the default behaviour is actually to call our listener, and not do any magic on its own.