I do have one of those circumstances.  I'll investigate further and see if I
can discovery why calling finish is not doing what I expect (i.e., I'm doing
it wrong).

Chris Stewart
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Joseph Earl <[email protected]>wrote:

> As TreKing said - it is perfectly fine and normal for an activity to
> finish() itself in circumstances where that is required.
>
> On Jul 22, 7:56 pm, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:35 PM, RichardC <
> [email protected]>wrote:
> >
> > > There is usually no need to call finish().
> >
> > > If you have avoided doing anything "clever", when the user presses
> > > the [back] button your top activity will finish and the one underneath
> will
> > > resume.
> >
> > Well, if your second activity is there to provide the first with a
> result,
> > there is certainly the need to call finish(). This is pretty common
> > functionality and not what I would call being "clever".
> >
> >
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