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Android

Posted by Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Nguyen
77 Points

How do I carry one intent into 2 different activities?

I want to create and Intent that carries one activity to two separate Blank activities.

2 Answers

Jon Kussmann
PLUS
Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 Points
Jon Kussmann
Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 Points

In general, an activity represents a screen for your application. So, it does not make sense to start an intent for two different activities, because you should only have one active activity at a time.

Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Nguyen
77 Points

I want to pass the same string to two different activities

Joshua David
Joshua David
5,494 Points
Joshua David
Joshua David
5,494 Points

In order to pass a String into multiple activities, all you have to do is create a new string in the "strings.xml file located in your application directory. The path to the file should look similar to this: 

applicationName/res/values/strings.xml

Create your string which should look similar to this:

<string name="general_error">Sorry, there was an error!</string>

After that, in whichever activity you are in, you may call your string simply by entering the id of said string in whichever block of code you want. Here I made a Toast and called a string on it to alert the user of an error.

Toast.makeText(this, R.string.general_error, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

I hope this helps.