Third Case of Intent in Android

Abhijeet Singh
Apr 01, 2014
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Intent

An intent is an abstract description of an operation to be performed. In simple words we can say that an intent is basically used to notify the Android system of the occurrence of an event.

Procedure

Start the Eclipse IDE.
Create a new project.
Create two Java files, one is MainActivity.java file and the other one is B.java.
Create two XML files, one is the activity_main.xml file and the second is ll.xml for layout design.
In the third case of intent we add an activity with an intent filter to the manifest file like this:

<activity android:name="B"></activity>
In the MainActivity.java file make an intent with an extra string like this:

Intent i=new Intent(getApplicationContext(),B.class);
i.putExtra("money", e1.getText().toString());
startActivity(i);
In the B.java file within the onCreate function use a getIntent with getStringExtra like this:

Intent i=getIntent();
String str=i.getStringExtra("money");
tv.setText(str);

Code is given below

MainActivity.java:

package com.example.intentcase3rd;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener
{
    EditText e1;
    Button b1;
   @Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
      e1=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
      b1=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
      b1.setOnClickListener(this);
   }
    public void onClick(View v)
    {
         // TODO Auto-generated method stub
         Intent i=new Intent(getApplicationContext(),B.class);
         i.putExtra("money", e1.getText().toString());
         startActivity(i);
     }
}

B.java

package com.example.intentcase3rd;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class B extends Activity implements OnClickListener
{
      TextView tv;
      Button b1;
      @Override
      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
     {
           // TODO Auto-generated method stub
           super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
           setContentView(R.layout.ll);
           tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
           Intent i=getIntent();
           String str=i.getStringExtra("money");
           tv.setText(str);
           b1=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
           b1.setOnClickListener(this);
      }
      public void onClick(View v)
      {
           // TODO Auto-generated method stub
      }
}

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

<TextView

      android:id="@+id/textView1"

      android:layout_width="wrap_content"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:text="Intent3 Demo" />

<EditText

      android:id="@+id/editText1"

      android:layout_width="wrap_content"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:layout_alignParentRight="true"

      android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"

      android:layout_marginRight="54dp"

      android:layout_marginTop="53dp"

      android:ems="10" >



    <requestFocus />

</EditText>

<Button

      android:id="@+id/button1"

      android:layout_width="wrap_content"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"

      android:layout_marginLeft="18dp"

      android:layout_marginTop="31dp"

      android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView1"

      android:text="Send" />

</RelativeLayout>

ll.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" >

<TextView

      android:id="@+id/textView1"

      android:layout_width="wrap_content"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:text="Large Text"

      android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

<Button

      android:id="@+id/button1"

      android:layout_width="wrap_content"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:text="Ok" />

</LinearLayout>

intentcase3rd Manifest

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    package="com.example.intentcase3rd"

    android:versionCode="1"

    android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk

      android:minSdkVersion="8"

      android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

<application

      android:allowBackup="true"

      android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"

      android:label="@string/app_name"

      android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

    <activity

        android:name="com.example.intentcase3rd.MainActivity"

       android:label="@string/app_name" >

      <intent-filter>

        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />



        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

      </intent-filter>

    </activity>

    <activity android:name="B"></activity>

</application>

</manifest>