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Android

Posted by Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points

How do I make a button go to another Page/Layout in Android Studio?

I understand how to make the button change a string but how do I make it go to another layout/page?

1 Answer

Michael Makali'i Fernandez
Michael Makali'i Fernandez
8,090 Points
Michael Makali'i Fernandez
Michael Makali'i Fernandez
8,090 Points

In your button's event handler use an intent to get to the next activity. For example:

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

An important thing to remember is to add the TargetActivity to your Android Manifest file as well:

<activity>
    <android:label="@string/app_name" android:name="TargetActivity"
<activity/>
Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points

May you dummy it up a bit?

Jon Kussmann
Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 Points

Hi Evering,

I'm not sure how far you are in the Android track, but you should pretty quickly learn how to start a new activity from a button click, which is generally how you show a new page.

Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points

Where do you learn that in the track? If you know? I would greatly appreciate it!

Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points

Where do you learn that in the track? If you know? I would greatly appreciate it!