Question

I have an application in which I have different activities. In 1 activity, I want that when the user presses the back button, I want the application to be closed and home screen is displayed

Code

public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) 
        {
            //Handle the back button
            if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) 
                {
                    //Ask the user if they want to quit
                    new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
                    .setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert)
                    .setTitle("Exit")
                    .setMessage("Really Exit ?")
                    .setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() 
                        {
                            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) 
                                {
                                 Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
                                intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
                                intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                                startActivity(intent);
                                }
                        })
                    .setNegativeButton("No", null)
                    .show();
                    return true;
                }
            else 
                {
                return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
                }
        }

When I run this and press the back button, the home screen is displayed, but when I run it for the second time, I get a console output as

ActivityManager: Warning: Activity not started, its current task has been brought to the front.

And the activity in which the back button is pressed gets displayed.
I think the application does not get killed and runs in background. Just to mention, this is not the starting activity of my application.

Can somebody help me, I am beginner.

Answer 1

For each and every Intent you have used for going into other activity u have to follow this way for passing intent just pass flag to each intent as given below and after starting Activity using startActivity() u have to add finish() after that demo code as given below

Intent i=new Intent(firstActivity.this,secondActivity.class);
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(i);
finish();