Fragment pressing back button

Question

I am now having an activity containing fragments

[1] , [2] , [3] , [4]

If pressing buttons , [3] , it can be redirected to [4]

I would like to implement the back button as shown follow..

when pressing back at [4] , it return to [3]

when pressing back at [3] , it return to [2]

when pressing back at [1] , the activity finishes();

When it comes to the current implementation, it finish the activity instead of popping up the Fragment. Would you please tell me what I should do or keep in mind ?

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {

    if( keyCode==KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) 
    {   

        finish();
    }       

        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event); 

}   

Answer 1

You also need to check Action_Down or Action_UP event. If you will not check then onKey() Method will call 2 times.

getView().setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
getView().requestFocus();

getView().setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
                if (event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
                    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
                        Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "Back Pressed", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    return true;
                    }
                }
                return false;
            }
        });

Working very well for me.

Answer 2

Still better solution could be to follow a design pattern such that the back-button press event gets propagated from active fragment down to host Activity. So, it's like.. if one of the active fragments consume the back-press, the Activity wouldn't get to act upon it, and vice-versa.

One way to do it is to have all your Fragments extend a base fragment that has an abstract 'boolean onBackPressed()' method.

@Override
public boolean onBackPressed() {
   if(some_condition)
      // Do something
      return true; //Back press consumed.
   } else {
      // Back-press not consumed. Let Activity handle it
      return false;
   }
}

Keep track of active fragment inside your Activity and inside it's onBackPressed callback write something like this

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
   if(!activeFragment.onBackPressed())
      super.onBackPressed();
   }
}

This post has this pattern described in detail