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Our second Activity is being started by an Intent. We can access the Intent used to start it and retrieve the "extra" data that was added to it.
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Our intent object now has some data, cool.
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But what do we do on the other side?
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What code do we need to add in the
activity where we are sending this intent?
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So this new activity will be
started with the intent, so
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we can access it right away
inside the onCreate method.
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Add a few lines under setContentView.
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And then here we are going to get
the intent used to start this activity, so
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let's declare an intent
variable named intent.
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The activity base class, as usual,
has a helpful method for us, so type = and
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start typing get, and look at that,
from auto complete we have getIntent.
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All right, now what exactly does this do?
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Well, let's check the documentation.
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We can click on the method and
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then show documentation with either F1 or
Ctrl+J on a Mac.
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Or Ctrl+Q on Windows.
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I know that's kind of a mouthful
of keyboard shortcut combos,
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but this is a useful one
that it pays to know.
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Anyhow, it says here that this returns
the intent used to start the activity.
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Perfect.
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But now what do we do with it?
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Well, let's gamble and see if we can
figure it out from autocomplete.
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We can explore this intent on a new line.
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Type intent., and then here, let's see,
what's the opposite of put extra?
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We want to get data out of it, so
let's start typing get, and look at that.
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There's a bunch of get certain data types
of extras here, so we want getStringExtra.
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Let's see, getStringExtra, and there we
go, it takes a string name as a parameter,
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which is the key for
the string value we want.
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But we need to pass in the key that we
used, which was name in all lower case.
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Let's peek at the documentation
again just to make sure.
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If we hit Ctrl+J on my Mac,
then this tells us it gets a string,
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it returns a string,
based on the key name.
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Cool, just what we want.
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All right,
we have enough to test this out.
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So let's use a log statement to make
sure that this new name is available
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in the activity.
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log.d, and we want to create a tag.
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We'll do that in a second, and we'll pass
in, we need to save this in a variable.
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So let's call this String name = And then
we can pass in name as the log message.
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And for tag, let's create it up here.
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Type public static final string,
TAG in all uppercase, and
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we'll set it equal to the name
of the activity, StoryActivity.
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But we'll do it, again,
with that shortcut.
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StoryActivity.class.getSimpleName.
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So that if we ever change the name, it
will be refactored for us automatically.
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Let's run this and
make sure that it's working.
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Okay, so once again, I will type my name,
tap on the button, and
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if we go to the log, bring it up here, we
have a debug statement, let's look for it.
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Yes, there we go.
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We've got debug inside of our story
activity and there's my name.
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All right, mission accomplished.
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But we have a fragile spot in our code.
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We're using the same key
in two different places.
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One to put our extra into our intent,
and one to get it out.
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What happens if we type
it slightly differently?
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Here, let's change this to a capital N,
and in the next video,
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we'll explore what this does,
and how to fix it.
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