Action Bar's onClick listener for the Home button

Question

How can I implement a custom onClickListener for the Home button of the Action Bar?

I already did a getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); and now I want to redirect the user to a certain activity in case the Home button is clicked.

I tried with:

@Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case android.R.id.home:
            item.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new OnMenuItemClickListener() {
                public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
                    Intent i = new Intent();
                    i.setClass(BestemmingActivity.this, StartActivity.class);
                    i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
                    startActivity(i);
                    return true;
                }
            });
        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
        }
    }

but it never enters in the onMenuItemClick.

Basically, it's done just like in this link but still it doesn't enter in the listener.

Sk Saad Al Mahmud · Answer 1 · 2016-10-27T04:13:48.510

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if anyone else need the solution

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int id = item.getItemId();

    if (id == android.R.id.home) {
        onBackPressed();  return true;
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

edited Oct 27 '16 at 04:13

answered Feb 24 '15 at 09:20

Sk Saad Al Mahmud

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this should be a sollution. great answer – klaudiusnaban Mar 04 '16 at 10:21
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Worked for me with `return true;` – Rick Jun 20 '16 at 12:25
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Put a `return true;` at the end of the `if` block, then it's correct – androidguy Oct 26 '16 at 18:48
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This approach is not working for Home/Back button with arrow icon. – Trancer Feb 01 '17 at 19:43

score 111 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 26 '22 at 02:23

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I use the actionBarSherlock, after we set supportActionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
we can override the onMenuItemSelected method:

@Override
public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) {

    int itemId = item.getItemId();
    switch (itemId) {
    case android.R.id.home:
        toggle();

        // Toast.makeText(this, "home pressed", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        break;

    }

    return true;
}

edited Dec 26 '22 at 02:23

starball

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answered Jul 10 '12 at 08:22

lynn8570

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Doesn't work me me. Cannot override onMenuItemSelected as its final. – Aritra Roy Dec 23 '15 at 07:55
With android annotations just use @OptionsItem(android.R.id.home) public void yourMethod() { } – Italo Borssatto May 31 '16 at 20:09

score 24 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 02 '14 at 11:37

if we use the system given action bar following code works fine

getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);

@Override
public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) {

    int itemId = item.getItemId();
    switch (itemId) {
    case android.R.id.home:
      //do your action here.
        break;

    }

    return true;
}

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '12 at 09:30

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Fixed: no need to use a setOnMenuItemClickListener. Just pressing the button, it creates and launches the activity through the intent.

Thanks a lot everybody for your help!

answered Jun 18 '12 at 09:30

noloman

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Right, the action bar takes care of menu listeners and calls `onOptionsItemSelected()` automatically. No need to install manually (that can actually break things). – Nikolay Elenkov Jun 18 '12 at 12:26

score 7 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 10 '16 at 07:38

answers in half part of what is happening. if onOptionsItemSelected not control homeAsUp button when parent activity sets in manifest.xml system goes to parent activity. use like this in activity tag:

<activity ... >
<meta-data
android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
android:value="com.activities.MainActivity" /> 
</activity>

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 18 '12 at 09:09

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You need to explicitly enable the home action if running on ICS. From the docs:

Note: If you're using the icon to navigate to the home activity, beware that beginning with Android 4.0 (API level 14), you must explicitly enable the icon as an action item by calling setHomeButtonEnabled(true) (in previous versions, the icon was enabled as an action item by default).

answered Jun 18 '12 at 09:09

Nikolay Elenkov

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I already did a `getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);` and a `getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);` – noloman Jun 18 '12 at 09:12

score 2 · Answer 7 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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Best way to customize Action bar onClickListener is onSupportNavigateUp()

This code will be helpful link for helping code

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

Community

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answered Jun 08 '16 at 03:53

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Soha Soha · Answer 8 · 2017-07-28T10:20:57.407

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you should to delete your the Override onOptionsItemSelected and replate your onCreateOptionsMenu with this code

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_action_bar_finish_order_stop, menu);
        menu.getItem(0).setOnMenuItemClickListener(new FinishOrderStopListener(this, getApplication(), selectedChild));
        return true;

    }

edited Jul 28 '17 at 10:20

answered Jul 28 '17 at 09:22

Soha Soha

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Please add some explanations to help people to understand and go (back?) reading stackoverflow's policies about answer with only code. – N0un Jul 28 '17 at 09:30

Action Bar's onClick listener for the Home button

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