How to return a result (startActivityForResult) from a TabHost Activity?

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Oh, god! After spending several hours and downloading the Android sources, I have finally come to a solution.

If you look at the Activity class, you will see, that finish() method only sends back the result if there is a mParent property set to null. Otherwise the result is lost.

public void finish() {
    if (mParent == null) {
        int resultCode;
        Intent resultData;
        synchronized (this) {
            resultCode = mResultCode;
            resultData = mResultData;
        }
        if (Config.LOGV) Log.v(TAG, "Finishing self: token=" + mToken);
        try {
            if (ActivityManagerNative.getDefault()
                .finishActivity(mToken, resultCode, resultData)) {
                mFinished = true;
            }
        } catch (RemoteException e) {
            // Empty
        }
    } else {
        mParent.finishFromChild(this);
    }
}

So my solution is to set result to the parent activity if present, like that:

Intent data = new Intent();
 [...]
if (getParent() == null) {
    setResult(Activity.RESULT_OK, data);
} else {
    getParent().setResult(Activity.RESULT_OK, data);
}
finish();

I hope that will be helpful if someone looks for this problem workaround again.

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