Think of home like alt-tab in windows. You never need to capture it. You just need to handle onPause()/onStop() in a way that makes sense for the user temporarily leaving your app. You'll get onFinish() when your app is to be actually destroyed. If you have a need to actually kill off the whole thing when home is pressed, call finish() in onPause()/onStop() and you shall receive the touch of the droid reaper, making for a clean start next time the user tries to enter the activity.
On Jun 8, 10:31 am, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Your blog post IS the best explanation I have seen to date of what the > Home key really means. I thought it was particularly interesting that > it emphasized something I have been dimly aware of but keep > forgetting: unlike the Back key, pressing Home does NOT cause finish() > to be called. I assume from your description that it triggers only one > lifecycle callback, onPause(). It doesn't even itself trigger > onStop(), which may or may not follow. > > But shouldn't it trigger onStop() too? After all, the application is > no longer visible. And what about the Activity Stack? Doesn't pressing > Home put the least recently used Activity on that stack? > > In fact, when I put Log.d statements in my main Activity for both > onPause() and onStop(), I see both get called when I press the Home > key. > > On Jun 8, 5:13 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Droid <rod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I need to know when the home button is pressed too (otherwise my app > > >> returns to visibility again and again for ever). > > > > Then fix your bug. > > > >> (Please don't tell me I need to design my app > > >> 'properly', I have been Android dev for over a year now) > > > > Tough. Design your app properly. > > > I just wrote up a blog post about why you should not care about the > > HOME button and how better to solve this "problem": > > >http://commonsware.com/blog/2011/06/08/please-ignore-home-button.html > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons > > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Android 3.0 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books -- 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
