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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) Intents and Multiple Activities Starting a New Activity

how can we add an intend to start flyactivity

please help

LaunchActivity.java
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

public class LaunchActivity extends Activity {

  public Button mLaunchButton;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_launch);

    mLaunchButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.launchButton);
    mLaunchButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
      @Override
      public void onClick(View v) {
        // Add your code in here!

      }
    });
  }
}

4 Answers

An Intent to change Activities is an basically like creating any other Java object. It takes two parameters, a context for the activity, which in this case is just given by 'this', and the java class for the activity that you want to change over to. After that you just call a method called startActivity() and pass the intent as a parameter.

example: We want to switch over to an activity called userProfileActivity, which has a java class in your project files. You simply call the following

Intent intent = new Intent(this,userProflileActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
//the activity should start after this code is called!

hope this helps :).

it is giving me a syntax error

Intent intent = new Intent(LaunchActivity.this, FlightActivity.class); startActivity(intent);

That seems right... Where are you declaring it? Can you post the entire code?

import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.Button;

public class LaunchActivity extends Activity {

public Button mLaunchButton;

@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_launch);

mLaunchButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.launchButton);
mLaunchButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
  @Override
  public void onClick(View v) 

Intent intent = new Intent(this,userProflileActivity.class); startActivity(intent);{ // Add your code in here!

  }
});

} }