What is up button in android?
The Up button is used to navigate within an app based on the hierarchical relationships between screens.
How do I go back to parent activity on android?
You can do this in the app manifest, by setting an android:parentActivityName attribute. The android:parentActivityName attribute was introduced in Android 4.1 (API level 16). To support devices with older versions of Android, define a <meta-data> name-value pair, where the name is "android. support.