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Jonno
Jonno

Reputation: 1552

Finishing an activity / Intent

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

Upvotes: 4

Views: 22708

Answers (3)

Yashar PourMohammad
Yashar PourMohammad

Reputation: 570

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

Upvotes: 0

Stephan Branczyk
Stephan Branczyk

Reputation: 9375

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

super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

Upvotes: 0

Konstantin Burov
Konstantin Burov

Reputation: 69228

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.

Upvotes: 3

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