Finishing an activity / Intent

Question

I am making a that program is going into another activity to get some data, and then returning the data through intent to my main activity. The code I have at the moment does open a new activity, it gets and sends the data but seems to 'restart' my main activity when finish() is called.

Question: How do I stop my second activity restarting my main activity?

Main Activity:

Intent intent = new Intent(AndroidVideoPlayer.this, FileChooser.class);
intent.putExtra("dir", 1);
startActivityForResult(intent, requestCode);

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    Log.d("CheckStartActivity","onActivityResult and resultCode = "+resultCode);
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    myPath = data.getStringExtra("stringPath");
    textEmpty.setText(myPath);
    myUri = Uri.parse(myPath);      
    mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, myUri);   
}

Secondary Activity:

Intent intent = new Intent(FileChooser.this,AndroidVideoPlayer.class);
intent.putExtra("stringPath",intentPath1);
setResult(1,intent);
finish(); // <--- does close activity, but restarts main activity

when you finish an activity wants to go back to previous activity with result, do not create new intent, you should call getIntent; Intent intent = getIntent(); set the results as you did and finish — Charlie Wu, Sep 23 '15 at 02:11

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 28 '11 at 03:50

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That's how it is supposed to work. You need to override onActivityResult method of your main activity to get the stringPath from the intent.

answered Aug 28 '11 at 03:50

Konstantin Burov

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@Jon So you're saying that onActivityResult is never called? – Konstantin Burov Aug 28 '11 at 04:57
to add to Konstantin's answer, see another example here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1124548/how-to-pass-the-values-from-one-activity-to-previous-activity – gmjordan Apr 03 '13 at 13:26

Stephan Branczyk · Answer 2 · 2011-08-28T21:39:49.030

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Ok. You seem to be missing this line inside your onActivityResult definition.

super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

edited Aug 28 '11 at 21:39

answered Aug 28 '11 at 09:31

Stephan Branczyk

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I want it to return to the previous activity, but it seems to restart the activity rather than just go back to it because all of my interface gets reset. – Jonno Aug 28 '11 at 15:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 27 '12 at 10:10

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It seems like your activity is being recreated again. Try overriding onSaveInstanceState and using the savedInstanceState on the onCreate. It should work.

edited May 27 '12 at 10:10

EdChum

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answered Mar 28 '12 at 10:56

Yashar PourMohammad

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Finishing an activity / Intent

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