is there a default back key(on device) listener in android?

Praveen picture Praveen · Apr 7, 2010 · Viewed 45.9k times · Source

I am having two activities A and B. when i click the button in A that will shows B. when i click the Button in B it backs to A. i had set the overridePendingTransition method after the finish() method. it works properly. but in case the current Activity is B. on that time i click the default back button in the device. it shows the right to left transition to show the Activity A.

How i can listen that Default back key on device?

EDIT:

Log.v(TAG, "back pressed");
finish();
overridePendingTransition(R.anim.slide_top_to_bottom, R.anim.hold);

Answer

Jamie Keeling picture Jamie Keeling · Apr 7, 2010
@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)  {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && event.getRepeatCount() == 0) {
        // do something on back.
        return true;
    }

    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

The following link is a detailed explanation on how to handle back key events, written by the Android developers themselves:

Using the back key