Managing the Android back button
How to enable double pressing on the Android physical button to dismiss and kill the app
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var frameModule = require("ui/frame"); var application = require("application") var activity = application.android.startActivity || application.android.foregroundActivity || frameModule.topmost().android.currentActivity || frameModule.topmost().android.activity; var lastPress; activity.onBackPressed = function() { var timeDelay = 500 if (lastPress + timeDelay > java.lang.System.currentTimeMillis()) { var startMain = new android.content.Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_MAIN); startMain.addCategory(android.content.Intent.CATEGORY_HOME); startMain.setFlags(android.content.Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); activity.startActivity(startMain); // If you want to kill the app totally, use these codes instead of above // activity.finish(); // java.lang.System.exit(0); } else { frameModule.topmost().goBack(); } lastPress = java.lang.System.currentTimeMillis(); }