If I had to guess, you are calling finish() after calling
startActivityForResult() in the "parent activity". Hence, the parent
activity is gone, and there is nothing for the ListActivity to return
to.
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:21 PM, ecforu <ecforus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a ListActivity I display from a parent activity. When the user
> selects the desired item from the list it supposed to return to the
> parent activity. Only when I call finish, the app goes away (doesn't
> quit) and displays the Android Home page. If I debug, the application
> doesn't die, it just sits on an MessageQueue.Wait().
>
> I have a break point right before the finish() call and one in the
> first line of the OnActivityResult. When I press continue from the
> first, I never see the second on in onActivityResult.
>
> I have other child activities in my app that don't display this
> problem. However this is the only ListActivity I have that I am
> trying to return from.
> I do call finish from onListItemClick. I'm wondering if that is not
> allowed since that is responding to a view event. However if I don't
> do it here, how can I get back to the parent activity. Below is the
> code snippet of my finish method.
>
> �...@override
> protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position,
> long id)
> {
> Object selectedItem = _adapter.getItem(position);
> //TODO get results back to parent activity
> Intent listIntent = new Intent();
> setResult(RESULT_OK, listIntent);
> finish();
> }
>
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