Home Button Listener

Home button listener

You do not need to catch Home button. If user press Home and some other Activity comes to foreground, your app goes to background and onPause() is called in your current Activity. You may override that function to clean search string or anything you need.

UPDATE:

More clean solution is to use flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY when starting that critical activity. So, when your activity goes to background system will close it properly for you.

Action Bar's onClick listener for the Home button

Fixed: no need to use a setOnMenuItemClickListener.
Just pressing the button, it creates and launches the activity through the intent.

Thanks a lot everybody for your help!

Home button click event handling android

On older Android version this is working. But Android changed this, because they say "Home Button should stay Home Button" and they don't want that anybody override the Home Button. And because of this reason your code is not working anymore.

If you want to do something when the home button is pressed, then do this in the onPause method.

how to stop service when click home button?

Use this code for home button press event :

HomeWatcher mHomeWatcher = new HomeWatcher(this);
mHomeWatcher.setOnHomePressedListener(new OnHomePressedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onHomePressed() {
        // do something here...
    }
    @Override
    public void onHomeLongPressed() {
    }
});
mHomeWatcher.startWatch();

HomeWatcher.class :

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.IntentFilter;
import android.util.Log;

public class HomeWatcher {

    static final String TAG = "hg";
    private Context mContext;
    private IntentFilter mFilter;
    private OnHomePressedListener mListener;
    private InnerRecevier mRecevier;

    public HomeWatcher(Context context) {
        mContext = context;
        mFilter = new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_CLOSE_SYSTEM_DIALOGS);
    }

    public void setOnHomePressedListener(OnHomePressedListener listener) {
        mListener = listener;
        mRecevier = new InnerRecevier();
    }

    public void startWatch() {
        if (mRecevier != null) {
            mContext.registerReceiver(mRecevier, mFilter);
        }
    }

    public void stopWatch() {
        if (mRecevier != null) {
            mContext.unregisterReceiver(mRecevier);
        }
    }

    class InnerRecevier extends BroadcastReceiver {
        final String SYSTEM_DIALOG_REASON_KEY = "reason";
        final String SYSTEM_DIALOG_REASON_GLOBAL_ACTIONS = "globalactions";
        final String SYSTEM_DIALOG_REASON_RECENT_APPS = "recentapps";
        final String SYSTEM_DIALOG_REASON_HOME_KEY = "homekey";

        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            String action = intent.getAction();
            if (action.equals(Intent.ACTION_CLOSE_SYSTEM_DIALOGS)) {
                String reason = intent.getStringExtra(SYSTEM_DIALOG_REASON_KEY);
                if (reason != null) {
                    Log.e(TAG, "action:" + action + ",reason:" + reason);
                    if (mListener != null) {
                        if (reason.equals(SYSTEM_DIALOG_REASON_HOME_KEY)) {
                            mListener.onHomePressed();
                        } else if (reason.equals(SYSTEM_DIALOG_REASON_RECENT_APPS)) {
                            mListener.onHomeLongPressed();
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

OnHomePressedListener.class :

public interface OnHomePressedListener {
    public void onHomePressed();

    public void onHomeLongPressed();
}

Android home button listener

Anyone know where to put method that we want to call 1st when the app is re-opened

You have to put it in the onResume() method.

Take a look at the Activity lifecycle:

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