Question

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

List1.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,long arg3) {

        Intent nextScreen = new Intent(context,ServicesViewActivity.class);
        String[] Service = (String[])List1.getItemAtPosition(arg2);

        //Sending data to another Activity
        nextScreen.putExtra("data", datainfo);
        startActivityForResult(nextScreen,0);
        overridePendingTransition(R.anim.right_enter, R.anim.left_exit);
    }
});

This works fine, but on the actionbar the back arrow next to the app icon doesn’t get activated. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Selvin already posted the right answer. Here, the solution in pretty code:

public class ServicesViewActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        // etc...
        getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    }

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

The function NavUtils.navigateUpFromSameTask(this) requires you to define the parent activity in the AndroidManifest.xml file

<activity android:name="com.example.ServicesViewActivity" >
    <meta-data
     android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
     android:value="com.example.ParentActivity" />
</activity>

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