Android closing child activity from parent activity

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nilkash picture nilkash · Mar 27, 2013 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I wanted to close child activity from parent activity. My flow is like: activity A is opened, inside Activity A I am opening activity B. But at same time my activity A is doing some background task. When I got result of my background task I wanted to close activity B from Activity A.

Is it possible to do that?

Answer

Hoan Nguyen picture Hoan Nguyen · Mar 27, 2013

You can start activity B by using startActivityForResult (Intent intent, int requestCode) then you can close activity B by calling finishActivity (int requestCode).

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