On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Jroid <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have two activities. The first is a list where the user selects one
> of the items which takes them to a second activity showing the details
> of the item they selected.  When the user clicks the back button I
> want the app to return to the first activity.
>
> Is there anything special i need to do to make this happen?

That usually happens by default.

> Right now when I click the back button from the second activity it
> exits the app just like the home button would.

Then your first activity is gone for some reason (e.g., you called finish()).

> Here is how I am starting the Second Activity.
> startActivity(new Intent(getApplication(), SecondActivity.class));
> finish();

You called finish(). That means you want the first activity to be
destroyed. Replace these two lines with:

startActivity(this, SecondActivity.class)

and things should work better.

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