Question

I’d like to warn the user if the back press is going to finish the last activity on the stack, thereby exiting the app. I’d like to pop up a little toast and detect a 2nd back press within the next few seconds and only then call finish().

I already coded the back press detection using onBackPressed(), but I can’t find an obvious way to see how many activities are left on the back stack.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The reddit is fun app does this by overriding the onKeyDown method:

public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    //Handle the back button
    if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && isTaskRoot()) {
        //Ask the user if they want to quit
        new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
        .setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert)
        .setTitle(R.string.quit)
        .setMessage(R.string.really_quit)
        .setPositiveButton(R.string.yes, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                //Stop the activity
                finish();    
            }
        })
        .setNegativeButton(R.string.no, null)
        .show();

        return true;
    }
    else {
        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
    }
}