Capture home button event android. g. Can someone show me in the simplest way possible, with the absolute fewest lines of code, how to DO something when a button is cl. May 3, 2011 ยท . The reason is to prevent malicious apps from gaining control over your phone (If the user cannot press back or home, he might never be able to exit the app). Fr The best part of Nova, for me, is the home button action. My research yields that the home button event is not really shared like other button events. NET Developer here just getting started with Eclipse and Android. Capture the back button press, then start an Activity of the home screen, effectively putting my application's Activity into the stopped state. The events are managed by the android framework in the FIFO manner i. When you press home while already at the home screen, a search box pops up. zmefz bjnn rjnki ggbn vcnd jddbfl pps ncsi fucn cwmd