Back button and last activity

Question

Hi all,

My app chains some activities.

if you press the back button, you go back through old activities then you suddenly quit the application !

so I need to show a message like "do you really want to exit" if it's the last activity on stack

I know how to override the back button but i can't figure how to know how many activity are in history

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)  {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && event.getRepeatCount() == 0) {
        // Is it the last activity on stack ? 
        // so show confirm dialog
        return true;
    }

    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

Please help.

Answer 1

you can achieve that using the finish() function

public void finish() {
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        builder.setMessage("do you really want to exit?");
        builder.setCancelable(false);
        builder.setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                quit();
            }
        });
        builder.setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                dialog.cancel();
            }
        });
        AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
        alert.show();
    }

    public void quit() {
        super.finish();
    };