Objective
: To pass some data from one activity to another. Here the user's
selection of listview item from main activity to another activity.
Scenario:
Main activity has a ViewGroup -
ListView. Based on the user's selection of the item from the ListView
another activity (Second activity here)gets started. But the selected item
value needs to be passed from the main activity to the Second Activity.
//attaching
a listener on listview
MainActivity
- onCreate()
…..
listview.setOnItemClickListener(new
AdapterView.OnItemClickListener(){
public void
onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, final View view,
int position, long id){
Intent
intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), SecondActivity.class);
String
value = (String)parent.getItemAtPosition(position);
//
putExtra is called to send key-value pair to the SecondActivity
intent.putExtra("key",
value);
startActivity(intent);
}
});
SecondActivity
- onCreate()
…
Intent
intent = getIntent();
//retrieving
extras that are sent in bundle.
Bundle
bundle = intent.getExtras();
String
value = bundle.getString("key");