react-native/docs/backandroid.md

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id: backandroid
title: BackAndroid
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category: APIs
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**Deprecated.** Use [BackHandler](docs/backhandler.html) instead.


### Methods

- [`exitApp`](docs/backandroid.html#exitapp)
- [`addEventListener`](docs/backandroid.html#addeventlistener)
- [`removeEventListener`](docs/backandroid.html#removeeventlistener)




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# Reference

## Methods

### `exitApp()`

```javascript
BackAndroid.exitApp()
```



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### `addEventListener()`

```javascript
BackAndroid.addEventListener(eventName, handler)
```



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### `removeEventListener()`

```javascript
BackAndroid.removeEventListener(eventName, handler)
```