That's what I get for coding at night. I had forgotten that I had created my own base activity that had implemented starting a new Intent and no finish call.
Sorry about that, and thanks for responding :-) -Christer On Jun 5, 1:31 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > AFAIK, the top left icon has no effect, other than whatever effect you > apply yourself. Just marking it as "up enabled" does not cause Android > to somehow magically know how to handle that. Instead, you have to > override onOptionsItemSelected() and watch for android.R.id.home and > do something there. > > For example, in one of my activities that uses > setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(), I have: > > @Override > public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { > switch (item.getItemId()) { > case android.R.id.home: > finish(); > > return(true); > } > > return(super.onOptionsItemSelected(item)); > } > > In this case, the flow is much like yours -- "up" equates to "back", > so I just finish() the current activity to make it happen. > > If you are using startActivity() with FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT > to go "home", that's not going to immediately destroy your original > activity, any more than any other startActivity() call does. > > So... what are you doing in onOptionsItemSelected()? > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Christer Nordvik <cnord...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have two activities. > > > 1. Home > > 2. Details > > > In the details activity I set: > > ActionBar actionBar = this.getActionBar(); > > actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); > > > and this causes the top left icon to act as a home button. > > > But what I hadn't anticipated was that the details activity isn't > > destroyed when pressing the home button. If I press the back button > > then the activity is destroyed. > > > Can anyone explain why the details activity isn't destroyed? Do I need > > to intercept the user clicking the home button and destroy the > > activity myself since I want to cleanup the image resources it uses... > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.6 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en