Java – Use onOptionsItemSelected to move up from PreferenceActivity with PreferenceFragments

I’m having trouble using onOptionsItemSelected with Android Studio’s default Setup Activity (extending AppCompatPreferenceActivity). An important part of the activity is:

public class SettingsActivity extends AppCompatPreferenceActivity {

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setupActionBar();
    }

private void setupActionBar() {
        ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
        if (actionBar != null) {
             Show the Up button in the action bar.
            actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
        }
    }

public static class GeneralPreferenceFragment extends PreferenceFragment {

// [...]

@Override
        public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
            int id = item.getItemId();
            if (id == android. R.id.home) {
                startActivity(new Intent(getActivity(), SettingsActivity.class));
                return true;
            }
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
        }
    }

 two more fragments
}

This is great for fragments — onOptionsItemSelected @Override works great, going back to SettingsActivity, but I want SettingsActivity When using the up button, returns control to its parent activity.

I read the documentation and I get it

Although your fragment receives an on-item-selected callback for each menu item it adds, the activity is first to receive the respective callback when the user selects a menu item.

This means that I can’t simply add similar @Override (with different intents) to the SettingsActivity itself to handle my case so that the fragment does not return to the parent activity.

I’ve tried to handle this via AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity
    android:name=". SettingsActivity"
    android:label="@string/title_activity_settings"
    android:parentActivityName=". BlahBlahActivity" >
    <meta-data
        android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
        android:value="com.example.appthing.BlahBlahActivity" />
</activity>

But this doesn’t seem to be doing anything at all.

What is a good (if any) good way to deal with this?

The onOptionsItemSelected method in templates created by Android Studio is fragments.

I solved this by commenting on them and writing the onOptionsItemSelected method for activities that override onBackPressed

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    super.onBackPressed();
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int id = item.getItemId();
    if (id == android. R.id.home) {
        onBackPressed();
        return true;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}