Question

I have one activity with that launches another activity that has a EditText-view. When the user clicks the “Back” button I want the string in this edit text view to be returned but I can’t get it to work. I tried to implement a button (test purpose) and running my code and then it works.

In the activity that launches the other one:

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

        if (REQUEST_CODE_COMMENT == requestCode) {
            if (RESULT_OK == resultCode) {
                Toast.makeText(this, data.getDataString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }
        }
    }

The activity with the edit text view (I want this to work):

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    super.onBackPressed();
    Intent intent = new Intent();
    intent.setData(Uri.parse("hfldskajfkj" + commentEditText.getText().toString()));
    setResult(RESULT_OK, intent);   
}

But the resultCode is 0 (RESULT_CANCELLED) when i log it.

Answer 1

public void onBackPressed() {
        finish();
}

Thats the default implementation of onBackPressed() (also mentioned in the documentation). This means your activity gets finished (with the default code RESULT_CANCELLED) before your other code gets invoked. Removing super.onBackPressed() and adding finish() on the bottom should fix this.