Monitoring an Activity started with startActivity()

Question

I use startActivity() to begin a new Activity within my application and would like to find a way to either poll for or be notified when the started Activity exits. Is this possible?

Clarification: The Intent passed into startActivity will be using ACTION_VIEW.

Answer 1

startActivityForResult() is the method you want to use.

After your Activity completes a callback will be made to the calling Activity for onActivityResult() , where you can then process the returned data from the closed Activity .

The documentation for Activity details pretty well how you can do this.