How to finish current activity in Android
Solution 1:
If you are doing a loading screen, just set the parameter to not keep it in activity stack. In your manifest.xml, where you define your activity do:
<activity android:name=".LoadingScreen" android:noHistory="true" ... />
And in your code there is no need to call .finish() anymore. Just do startActivity(i);
There is also no need to keep a instance of your current activity in a separate field. You can always access it like LoadingScreen.this.doSomething()
instead of private LoadingScreen loadingScreen;
Solution 2:
I tried using this example but it failed miserably. Every time I use to invoke finish()/ finishactivity() inside a handler, I end up with this menacing java.lang.IllegalAccess Exception
. i'm not sure how did it work for the one who posed the question.
Instead the solution I found was that create a method in your activity such as
void kill_activity()
{
finish();
}
Invoke this method from inside the run method of the handler. This worked like a charm for me. Hope this helps anyone struggling with "how to close an activity from a different thread?".
Solution 3:
You need to call finish()
from the UI thread, not a background thread. The way to do this is to declare a Handler and ask the Handler to run a Runnable on the UI thread. For example:
public class LoadingScreen extends Activity{
private LoadingScreen loadingScreen;
Intent i = new Intent(this, HomeScreen.class);
Handler handler;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
handler = new Handler();
setContentView(R.layout.loading);
CountDownTimer timer = new CountDownTimer(10000, 1000) //10seceonds Timer
{
@Override
public void onTick(long l)
{
}
@Override
public void onFinish()
{
handler.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
loadingScreen.finishActivity(0);
startActivity(i);
}
});
};
}.start();
}
}