Question

I’m developing an android application and when I press the back button from my device (normal press time for a person, 1 second or less), it skips from my activity, to the previous activity (menu) and then exits the application.
But if I tap the back button quickly, it reacts as expected, it goes to the menu.
I’ve tried to find a solution but no success.
I’ve always tried to override the back button default behavior but no success either.
Is there a way to set a reaction time for the back button to react?

Many thanks in advance!

P.S.- I have other activities that maintains the expected behavior in back button when pressed with a normal press time.

Answer 1

I was developing an extra option for an application that already exists, and I found out that I should extend not from the Activity from Android but an already extended Activity called SEActivity. So in this extended version of Activity they override the method onKeyDown like this:

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
        return true;
    }
    else
        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

By extending this SEActivity, the Back button works with the expected behavior.
Thanks anyway 🙂