Android - Simulate Back Button

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david picture david · Apr 27, 2010 · Viewed 39.6k times · Source

When i press a button in my app, I need to return to the last activity.

Any ideas?

Answer

Chris Thompson picture Chris Thompson · Apr 27, 2010

Calling finish() from the activity you want to end should take care of this.

Edit many years later: This still works, but it's a bit of a heavy-handed approach. When I originally posted this, Fragments didn't exist, and (as several commenters have pointed out) this doesn't work quite the same way when there are Fragments involved. There are better approaches now if you're using Fragments.

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