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How to return a result (startActivityForResult) from a TabHost Activity?

I have 3 classes in my example: Class A, the main activity. Class A calls a startActivityForResult: Intent intent = new Intent(this, ClassB.class); ...

May 19, 2022
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How to show a dialog to confirm that the user wishes to exit an Android Activity?

I’ve been trying to show a “Do you want to exit?” type of dialog when the user attempts to exit an Activity. However ...

May 18, 2022
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How do I disable orientation change on Android?

I have an application that I just would like to use in portrait mode, so I have defined android:screenOrientation=”portrait” in the manifest XML. ...

May 17, 2022
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How do I programmatically “restart” an Android app?

Firstly, I know that one should not really kill/restart an application on Android. In my use case, I want to factory-reset my application ...

May 16, 2022
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Start an Activity with a parameter

I’m very new on Android development. I want to create and start an activity to show information about a game. I show that ...

May 16, 2022
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Activity, AppCompatActivity, FragmentActivity, and ActionBarActivity: When to Use Which?

I’m coming from iOS where it’s easy and you simply use a UIViewController. However, in Android things seem much more complicated, with certain ...

May 15, 2022
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Android Shared preferences for creating one time activity (example) [closed]

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May 14, 2022
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Android: Clear the back stack

In Android I have some activities, let’s say A, B, C. In A, I use this code to open B: Intent intent = ...

May 11, 2022
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OnActivityResult method is deprecated, what is the alternative?

I recently discovered that onActivityResult is deprecated. What should we do to handle it? Any alternative introduced for that? 26 Answers 26

May 11, 2022
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Clear the entire history stack and start a new activity on Android

Is it possible to start an activity on the stack, clearing the entire history before it? The situation I have an activity stack ...

May 10, 2022
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