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Sandhiya
Sandhiya

Reputation: 359

Not able to go back on clicking back arrow in action bar

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

 public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle item selection
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.home:
                onBackPressed();
                Log.d("on","back pressed");
                return true;
           }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

Not able to go back when clicking on back arrow in action bar.Not even the method is not called. My class extends AppCompatActivity. Anybody plz help me to solve this issue

Upvotes: 1

Views: 132

Answers (4)

Aditya Jaitly
Aditya Jaitly

Reputation: 292

starting from enabling the back button, don't if you are using the AppCompatActivity, if you are using same then use :

     Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
     setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
     getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
     getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

Listen for click events on android.R.id.home as seen you are using R.id.home replace that like this :

          @Override
          public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem menuItem) {
          if (menuItem.getItemId() == android.R.id.home) {
          // if your previous activity is present in stack(Means Not finished) then prefer finish();
          finish();
          //Or You can use same method you mention
           onBackPressed();
           }
          return super.onOptionsItemSelected(menuItem);
          }

Upvotes: 0

Shiva Kanumala
Shiva Kanumala

Reputation: 284

Try these code Once`

 @Override
public boolean onSupportNavigateUp() {
    finish();
   return true;
}

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    finish();
}

`

Upvotes: 0

Manish Stark
Manish Stark

Reputation: 163

Are you sure you created Menu of BackButton.. because if not thats why it's not working.. may be you created Imagebutton or Imageview for Back

Upvotes: 0

Harsh Shandilya
Harsh Shandilya

Reputation: 31

The correct item ID for the back button is android.R.id.home, once you change R.id.home to android.R.id.home, the code should work as expected.

Upvotes: 1

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