Android closing child activity from parent activity

activity-finish, android, parent-child

Solution

You can start activity B by using `startActivityForResult (Intent intent, int requestCode)` then you can close activity B by calling `finishActivity (int requestCode)`.

Problem

I wanted to close child activity from parent activity. My flow is like: activity A is opened, inside Activity A I am opening activity B. But at same time my activity A is doing some background task. When I got result of my background task I wanted to close activity B from Activity A. Is it possible to do that?

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