finishFromChild and onActivityResult not firing when child starts activity of the same type as the parent

Question

I have an application, which (for the sake of simplicity) has two types of activities - Overview and DetailView. The Overview activity shows a list of steps and allows the user to start a DetailView activity corresponding to the step chosen.

In the DetailView activity, the user can start another Overview, which shows different steps than the ones in the parent of the current DetailView.

In the Overview, DetailView is started by using startActivityForResult (). In the DetailView, when the user decides to start a second Overview, I call setResult () and finish () and then start the new Overview. In this scenario, onActivityResult () and finishFromChild () do not fire. Instead, they fire when the parent finishes (!?).

I hope that this question isn't too stupid :)

Code from Overview:

        Intent spIntent = new Intent ();
  spIntent.setClassName ("com.testing.testa", "com.testing.testa.Overview");

  spIntent.putExtra("id", itemId);
  spIntent.putExtra("local", isLocal);
  spIntent.putExtra("numberOfSteps", numberOfSteps);
  spIntent.putExtra("currentStep", swipeStepNumber);

  spIntent.putExtra("name", name);

  System.out.println ("swipeStepNum: " + this.swipeStepNumber);
  startActivityForResult (spIntent, 0);

...

public void onActivityResult (int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
  super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
  System.out.pritnln ("Child ended with resultCode: " + resultCode);     }

Code from DetailView:

Intent spIntent = new Intent ();
spIntent.setClassName ("com.testing.testa", "com.testing.testa.Overview");
spIntent.putExtra("id", itemId);
spIntent.putExtra("name", sectionedAdapter.getItem(position).toString());
startActivity (spIntent);
Intent die = new Intent ();
die.putExtra ("die", true);
setResult (1, die);
finish ();

Answer 1

In your DetailView, it seems that you are starting a new Overview so you would have O->D->O as your stack of activities. If you comment the startActivity in the DetailView code, you would set the result and call finish(). This should take you back from DetailView (O->D) to the original Overview (O) with the result in onActivityResult. So it seems that you need to decide if you want to go forward with a new Overview or back to the original Overview with the result. You can't go forward to a new Overview and have it see the result. I hope this makes sense.