Restoring original activity as it is (like home button) when back button pressed

Question

I am designing android application using tabHost.

TabActivity is always being launched from anther activity( suppose, Activity A). After that Activity A has no use.

When I am on tabActivity & if back button is pressed, then all goes in background( like every app). Now using task manager when I start app again, I want to retain tabActivity as it was. (like home button.) But currently I am getting Activity A. (as with back Button activities are getting destroyed.)

In short, I want to override backButton similar to Home Button.

I tried without luck with moveTaskToBack(true).

Can anybody suggest solution?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2000102/android-override-back-button-to-act-like-home-button — sootie8, Jan 28 '14 at 14:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 28 '14 at 14:28

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Also you could try this which should make the back button into a home button.

@Override public void onBackPressed() { this.dispatchKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME)); }

answered Jan 28 '14 at 14:28

sootie8

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@sooti8 thnx for taking interest. Problem is similar to home key, i want to hide app. App is not getting hiding without super.onBackPressed(). Any idea? – userx Jan 28 '14 at 14:38
Try this. Destroy your Activity A using Finish() once you change activities. – sootie8 Jan 28 '14 at 14:48
as with this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10479965/how-to-destroy-previous-activity-in-activity – sootie8 Jan 28 '14 at 14:50
thnx again man. Finishing approach is working. But cant restore all tab. – userx Feb 12 '14 at 14:31
as those are dynamic not any fixed tabs. – userx Feb 12 '14 at 14:32

Restoring original activity as it is (like home button) when back button pressed

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