Shutdown onActivityResult not working

Question

I have a couple of actions that must live or die together. Basically, AlphaActivity does some work and then sends the intent ( startActivityForResult() ) to BetaActivity. When BetaActivity is complete, I want it to send an intention ( startActivity() ) for GammaActivity, and then I call finish() . At the end, I was hoping that the AlphaActivity onActivityResult() method would be called, but that didn't seem to happen. My design is such that inside AlphaActivity onActivityResult() I call finish() . My plan is that after reaching GammaActivity, the user can never return to either AlphaActivity or BetaActivity. But currently, the back button brings the user to AlphaActivity.

I have some ideas why this does not work, but discussing them here is pointless, as I am interested in what might actually work.

EDIT:

The code is all pretty standard stuff:

Inside Alpha

 private void startBetaActivity() { Intent intent = new Intent(this, BetaActivity.class); startActivityForResult(intent, Constant.EXIT_CODE); } @Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data); if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) { if (requestCode == Constant.EXIT_CODE) { this.finish(); } } } 

Inside Beta:

 if (success) { startGammaActivity(); finish(); } 

Answer 1

I think you just need to:

 if (success) { startGammaActivity(); setResult(Activity.RESULT_OK); //add this finish(); } 

Answer 2

In my perspective you should follow this,

• AlphaActivity launches BetaActivity for result with query code X
• BetaActivity does its job and then calls setResult (Y, Z) and ends the call ()
• AlphaActivity will run onActivityResult with RequestCode X, ResultCode Y and data Z. If X and Y are the ones you expect, then start GammaActivity and finally end the call () in AlphaActivity

You should not run GammaActivity in BetaActivity because AlphaActivity onActivityResult will not work properly.

Answer 3

You did not call setResult ()

 if (success) { startGammaActivity(); setResult(RESULT_OK); finish(); } 

Or, if you do not need to return from BetaActivity to AlphaActivity , then in both actions the manifest puts android:noHistory=true