finish() not working on activity.

Question

I tried the answers from here, but I cannot get an activity to finish.

Here is the code:

  private void myMethod() {
    startActivity(startNewActivityOpen2);
    GlobalVars.questionHolders = null;  //is being called.  
    finish();
    amTransitioning = true;
  }

Calling Activity was started with these flags:

i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);

I tried

i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK or Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);

but this didn't work.

I can see that finish is getting called. My logcat is saying:

Duplicate finish request for ActivityRecord{426f37f8 u0 com.assistek.ediary/.PRO_GridOther t5569 f}

The activity continues along its merry way without finishing and I am getting a null pointer error because a singleton's value is getting cleared.

What are you trying to do? Generally you don't need to manually call `finish()` — Eselfar, Jun 20 '18 at 17:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '18 at 16:57

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finish(); does not terminate the activity the way you think it continue executing any code called after finish() you should write a "return;" after finish to avoid any code execution

answered Jun 20 '18 at 16:57

thunder413

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 20 '18 at 17:03

I guess you want amTransitioning to be true, so you have to call it before finishing the Activity.

I can see that finish is getting called. My logcat is saying:

Are you finishing the Activity in other method or something? If you do so that's the message on Logcat. If you want to avoid this message, just before finishing add YOURACTIVITY.isFinishing() if it's true don't finish, otherwise finish().

finish() not working on activity.

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