When Does Android Activity Finish Starts

When we call activity.finish() will the next android life cycle method be executed? 1) Lets say user clicks on a button onUserInteraction() we have called activity.finish() will t

Solution 1:

When the Activity first time loads the events are called as below:

onCreate()
onStart()
onResume()

When you click the back button OR try to finish() the activity the events are called as below:

onPause()
onStop()
onDestroy()

When you click on Phone button the Activity goes to the background & below events are called:

onPause()
onStop()

Exit the phone dialer & below events will be called:

onRestart()
onStart()
onResume()

I hope its clear now, for detail please see this.

Solution 2:

When activity.finish() is called following lifecycle methods are called for that activity

onStop()
onDestroy()

Activity instance will be destroyed