title: Application Settings? Do I have to use startActivity?
body: <p>I have finally finished the app that I was working on.  It is a scoreboard app for basketball.  It works exactly as expected but during the development phase I have hard-coded all of the variables in.  This is fine for me but if this app is useful for anyone else then some of the variables need to be able to be changed.</p>
  
  <p>I figured the best way to do this is with the us of the Options Menu.  I've got the menu appearing on the screen when the user clicks on the Settings option in the menu.  I created a new Activity called SettingsActivity and was able to show this XML layout by using the startActivity(R.layout.settings) method.  But when I click the BACK button on my device it exits the program.</p>
  
  <p>I'm curious of a couple of things... My understanding is that if I use the startActivity() method that it will essentially erase my current Activity and go to the new one.  However, in the unlikely situation a user does this in the middle of the game, I don't what it wiping everything out.  I need it to just continue where it left off from when the user hits the BACK button.</p>
  
  <p>How should I go about accomplishing this?</p>