Handling Activity Stack in Android Apps

Question

Lets say I have three Activities in my App.

1) Signup Activity 2) AccountActivate Activity 3) Main Activity

Order 1 -> 2 -> 3 (User Signs Up -> if Sign up is successful -> Enters PIN and activates account -> if activation successful -> lands in Main Activity

Now here is the problem.

Once I am in Main and the activation is complete, and I press the hardware key (BACK) on the phone or the emulator I am taken to AccountActivate Activity (2) again. I do not really want this to happen since the Account has been activated so the user should not really see this again. Is there a way I can handle this?

Thanks for all the help guys.

Answer 1

You call finish() when you go from 2) to 3). Or you use Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY.. This has been asked many times.