Hi folks, I'm porting an iPhone app that was based on the navigation template. I.e. a series of views are pushed onto a navigation stack, and the bar at the top shows where you're at in the hierarchy. I go deeper into the hierarchy by interacting with things on each view, and I go backwards in the stack by pressing the back button on the navigation bar.
On Android I've ported it so that each step in the hierarchy is a new activity with its own custom layout. Each one though has a bar at the top that shows the title of the previous screen and the current screen. I go forwards still by interacting with stuff on the layout (tapping a cell in a ListView for example), and I go backwards using the hardware back button. This all works well for me right now. My problem now is what to do with scenarios where I want to completely clear the stack and return to the "home" or root screen/activity. How do I finish/kill off all the other activities in the stack when I want to pop straight to the root no matter my current depth? I was thinking one way would be that I could keep a literal stack, implement it as a singleton, and every time one of my stack based activities is created it would add itself to the stack, and when it's destroyed it would remove itself from the stack. When I want to pop to the bottom I would then just iterate through the stack and call finish() on each of the items. Does this make sense? Is there a better way? Thanks in advance for any advice. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
