finish() not closing activity when called after the first run

Question

I have three activities

• MessagesAttachPhotoActivity
• MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity
• ImagePickerActivity

MessagesAttachPhotoActivity calls MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity with startActivityForResult().

MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity activity displays the photo folders on the phone and one selects a folder.

ImagePickerActivity is then called with setActivityForResult(). Once an image is selected from ImagePickerActivity, it is passed back to MessagesAttachPhotoActivity via MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity.

When I run the app for the first time, everything works fine. However, if I try to select an image again afterwards, MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity does not close after setResult().

I have tried calling finish(), this.finish(), ((Activity)getApplicationContext()).finish(), and super.onBackPressed() without success.

Why does the activity not close on successive runs?

Here is my code:

Calling MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity:

Intent intent;
Bundle arguments = new Bundle();

Bundle bundle;
intent = new Intent(this, MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity.class);
bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putInt(Constants.INTENT_EXTRA_LIMIT, Constants.IMAGES_SELECT_LIMIT);
bundle.putInt("Request", MessageThread.MessageType.IMAGE);
intent.putExtras(bundle);
startActivityForResult(intent, MessageThread.MessageType.IMAGE);

ImagePickerActivity:

imagesIntent.putExtra(ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_MODE,
                      ImagePickerActivity.MODE_MULTIPLE);
imagesIntent.putExtra(ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_LIMIT, 10);
imagesIntent.putExtra(ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_SHOW_CAMERA, false);
imagesIntent.putExtra(ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_ALBUM,album);

//imagesIntent.putExtra(ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_SELECTED_IMAGES, images);
startActivityForResult(imagesIntent, MessageThread.MessageType.IMAGE);

Passing data back to MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity:

Intent data = new Intent();
data.putParcelableArrayListExtra
     (ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_SELECTED_IMAGES, selectedImages);               
data.putExtra(ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_ALBUM,album);
setResult(RESULT_OK, data);
finish();
return true;

Trying to pass data back to the initial calling activity but this activity does not close MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity:

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, final Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

    if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        ArrayList<Image> selectedImages = data.getParcelableArrayListExtra
            (ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_SELECTED_IMAGES);

        String album = data.getStringExtra(ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_ALBUM);

        Intent intent = new Intent();
        intent.putExtra(ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_ALBUM, album);
        intent.putParcelableArrayListExtra
          (ImagePickerActivity.INTENT_EXTRA_SELECTED_IMAGES, selectedImages);

         setResult(Activity.RESULT_OK, intent);

         this.finish();
         return;
    } else if (resultCode == RESULT_CANCELED) {

    }
}

Answer 1

I think we can refer parent activity using getParent(). So, in the class MessageGalleryFolderSelectorActivity we can write ((Activity)getParent()).OnActivityResult(requestCode,resultCode,data) on the overrided onActivityResult. So, we are handover got values to parent without processing it.

Answer 2

Try to use finishAffinity() instead of finish() on the activity.