Finish an activity from another activity

I want to finish one activity from another activity, like:

In Activity [A], on button click, I am calling Activity [B] without finishing Activity [A].

Now in Activity [B], there are two buttons, New and Modify. When the user clicks on modify then pop an activity [A] from the stack with all the options ticked..

But when the user click on New button from Activity [B], then I will have to finish Activity [A] from the stack and reload that Activity [A] again into the stack.

I am trying it, but I am not able to finish Activity [A] from the stack... How can I do it?

I am using the code as:

From Activity [A]:

Intent GotoB = new Intent(A.this,B.class);
startActivityForResult(GotoB,1);

Another method in same activity

public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent) {

    if (requestCode == 1)
    {
        if (resultCode == 1) {
            Intent i = getIntent();
            overridePendingTransition(0, 0);
            i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);
            finish();

            overridePendingTransition(0, 0);
            startActivity(i);
        }
    }
}

And in Activity [B], on button click:

setResult(1);
finish();

1. Make your activity A in manifest file: launchMode = "singleInstance"

2. When the user clicks new, do FirstActivity.fa.finish(); and call the new Intent.

3. When the user clicks modify, call the new Intent or simply finish activity B.

FIRST WAY

In your first activity, declare one Activity object like this,

public static Activity fa;
onCreate()
{
    fa = this;
}

now use that object in another Activity to finish first-activity like this,

onCreate()
{
    FirstActivity.fa.finish();
}

SECOND WAY

While calling your activity FirstActivity which you want to finish as soon as you move on, You can add flag while calling FirstActivity

intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY);

But using this flag the activity will get finished evenif you want it not to. and sometime onBack if you want to show the FirstActivity you will have to call it using intent.

That you can do, but I think you should not break the normal flow of activity. If you want to finish you activity then you can simply send a broadcast from your activity B to activity A.

Create a broadcast receiver before starting your activity B:

BroadcastReceiver broadcastReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context arg0, Intent intent) {
        String action = intent.getAction();
        if (action.equals("finish_activity")) {
            finish();
            // DO WHATEVER YOU WANT.
        }
    }
};
registerReceiver(broadcastReceiver, new IntentFilter("finish_activity"));

Send broadcast from activity B to activity A when you want to finish activity A from B

Intent intent = new Intent("finish_activity");
sendBroadcast(intent);

I hope it will work for you...

This is a fairly standard communication question. One approach would be to use a ResultReceiver in Activity A:

Intent GotoB=new Intent(A.this,B.class);
GotoB.putExtra("finisher", new ResultReceiver(null) {
    @Override
    protected void onReceiveResult(int resultCode, Bundle resultData) {
        A.this.finish();
    }
});
startActivityForResult(GotoB,1);

and then in Activity B you can just finish it on demand like so:

((ResultReceiver)getIntent().getExtra("finisher")).send(1, new Bundle());

Try something like that.

There is one approach that you can use in your case.

Step1: Start Activity B from Activity A

startActivity(new Intent(A.this, B.class));

Step2: If the user clicks on modify button start Activity A using the FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP.Also, pass the flag in extra.

Intent i = new Intent(B.this, A.class);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
i.putExtra("flag", "modify");
startActivity(i);
finish();

Step3: If the user clicks on Add button start Activity A using the FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP.Also, pass the flag in extra. FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP will clear all the opened activities up to the target and restart if no launch mode is defined in the target activity

Intent i = new Intent(B.this, A.class);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
i.putExtra("flag", "add");
startActivity(i);
finish();

Step4: Now onCreate() method of the Activity A, need to retrieve that flag.

String flag = getIntent().getStringExtra("flag");
if(flag.equals("add")) {
    //Write a code for add
}else {
    //Write a code for modifying
}