Reading your question, and with Honeycomb being relatively new, I thought perhaps I had seriously screwed up how that "home affordance" worked. Hence, I'm grateful that this is working for you.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Christer Nordvik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] >> > 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 [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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/commonsguy http://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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
