onActivityResult gets called when Activity starts, not when its finished

Question

i wrote a FragmentActivity with some tabs. when i call an additional activity (which i use for setting user-preferences) with startActivityForResult (no differences if its in FragmentActivity or in ListFragment) the method onActivityResult gets called when i starts this preference-activity, but not when i finish it, as i would expect it (again no differences if its in FragmentActivity or in ListFragment). after i finish the preference-activity this method does not get called at all.

my problem is that i want to refresh my current tab (and set the last used tab id) after i finished the preference activity and i hoped to be able to do this in the onActivityResult method.

this is the class creating the preference-activity:

public abstract class ListFragmentBase<I> extends ListFragment implements
LoaderCallbacks<List<I>> {

this is the method forwarding me to the preference activity inside this class:

protected void forwardToPreferences(int currentTab){            
        Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), GlobalPreferencesActivity.class);
        getActivity().startActivityForResult(intent, 10);
}

this is the method that gets called after calling the method above but not after i finished the called activity

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

this is the preference-activity:

public class GlobalPreferencesActivity extends Activity {

and inside that class you see how i call the finish method:

TextView confirmSettings = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.confirm_settings);
confirmSettings.setTextSize(PreferenceHelper.getSizeHeader(getApplicationContext()));
    confirmSettings.findViewById(R.id.confirm_settings).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {    
            if(BaseFragmentActivity.lastActivity != null){
                BaseFragmentActivity.lastActivity.onRefreshData();
        }
            ComponentName callingActivity = getCallingActivity();
            GlobalPreferencesActivity.this.finish();
        }
    });

Answer 1

Please make sure activity your calling is not singleInstance in AndroidManifest file. Make sure that its is singleTop or standard.

Hope this will work for you guys as well

Answer 2

It is a bug of Android

onActivityResult() called prematurely

and

Why does result from startActivityForResult come before activity really starts?

I don't know which version you use and if it has been solved/corrected