how can I do something before current activity go background by Back key?

Question

When back key is pressed, current activity goes background. I'd like to show a popup and let user choose really close this activity, before current activity go background. I tried to override onPause(), but it's called after activity goes back.

Please somebody explains me how to do that?

Answer 1

Did you try to override onPause() ?

In my case when I hit the back button it first call onPause() before calling onStop().

There is a good video explaining an application lifecycle processus :

http://blip.tv/file/958450/

Answer 2

You can override the onKeyDown method of the Activity:

public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK){
            //Show the dialog and get the response
        }

//Do a if here with your variable returned from the dialog      
return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
    }