Question

I have two activities, let’s call them A and B.

A is an activity that can be started from two places in the app. I want to be able to know if A was started from place 1 or 2, so in B I call A like this:

Intent i = new Intent(B.this, A.class);
i.putExtra("code", code);
startActivityForResult(i, code);

(code is an int with the value 1.)

In the onCreate method of A I do this:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    Intent i = getIntent();
    Bundle extras = i.getExtras();
    if(extras != null)
    {
        int code = extras.getInt("code");
        if(code == 1)
        {
            ClearReleasesCache(); // just a private method of A
            setResult(1, i);                
            finish();
            return;
        }
    }

    // do everything else as usual
    setContentView...
}

Now, the problem is this (I’ve noticed it in debugging):

When I launch A from B, I want A to finish, as the code indicates here. When I launch A from another activity that’s not B, I want it to run as usual (and it does). But finish() and return do nothing here – I can see when debugging that after the return call, it jumps back into onCreate, it doesn’t shut down the activity.

That is, onActivityResult() in B is never called.

What’s wrong here?

Answer 1

 if(extras == null || extras.getInt("code") != 1) {
         // do everything else as usual
 } else
       finish();

cant you just switch the if condition?

EDIT: but are you sure the return statement does not worK?