Question

I have a ListActivity which displays all the aggregate contacts. When the user clicks one, my code calls startActivityForResult. All this works properly. When the user finishes editing, I want my ListActivity to be displayed again. Instead, the “people” activity gets displayed. Similarly, my onActivityResult function never gets called.

Here is the code handling the click:

  @Override
  public void onItemClick (AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) 
  {
    Cursor cur = ((SimpleCursorAdapter)parent.getAdapter()).getCursor();
    cur.moveToPosition (position);
    String key = cur.getString (2);  // "2" is the col containing the LOOKUP_KEY
    System.out.println ("clicked " + key);

    // make intent to edit contact
    Intent intent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_EDIT);
    intent.setData (Uri.parse (ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_LOOKUP_URI + "/" + key));
    startActivityForResult (intent, 2);
  }

And I also have an onActivityResult function:

  @Override
  protected void onActivityResult (int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
  {
    System.out.println ("request " + requestCode + ", result " + resultCode);
  }

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I filed a bug to android about this. Someone looked at it and responded that there is an undocumented workaround. From the bug report:

The undocumented workaround is to call putExtra(“finishActivityOnSaveCompleted”, true); on the ACTION_EDIT Intent.
However, as this is undocumented, I have no idea which Android version(s) will use it.

I tried it and it works for the version of Android I’m using: 4.1.2. See issue 39262 for more info.