Android Detect what caused the onPause

Question

I am not sure if there is a better way of doing this but I want to detect somehow what caused the application to pause.

On one particular activity that displays a tracking map if the user click back or home I want to stop GPS but if the screen goes off I want to keep the gps running I am also using a wake lock so it doesn't sleep (yes I know this probably should be in a service, but that will be v2 I'm running out of time!)

I am overriding when the back button is pressed

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {

    wl.release();
    this.mMyLocationOverlay.disableMyLocation();
    this.mMyLocationOverlay.disableCompass();

    if (mLocManager != null) {

        mLocManager.removeUpdates(mLocListener);
    }
    super.onBackPressed();
}  

but I can't find a way of doing the same for home.

Can anyone help?

Bex

Answer 1

in the onPause() you can call isFinishing() to know if the activity is finishing for whatever may be the reason or simply getting paused. See the doc here