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Postby plusminus » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:35 pm

Hello venkat,

we have a tutorial on :src: Passing Data to (Sub)Activities.

If I have some final values I prefer to store them in a Interface. Sample from AndNav:
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  1. public interface Constants {
  2.         /** Overall DebugTag for whole AndNav. */
  3.         public final String DEBUGTAG = "ANDNAV_DEBUGTAG";
  4.        
  5.         /** Shall be used if only one SubActivity is closed.*/
  6.         public final int SUBACTIVITY_RESULTCODE_UP_ONE_LEVEL = 0;
  7.         /** Shall be used if a chain of SubActivities is to be closed.*/
  8.         public final int SUBACTIVITY_RESULTCODE_CHAINCLOSE = SUBACTIVITY_RESULTCODE_UP_ONE_LEVEL + 1;
  9.         /** Shall be used to go back one level in the dialog-process. */
  10.         public final int SUBACTIVITY_RESULTCODE_SUCCESS = SUBACTIVITY_RESULTCODE_CHAINCLOSE + 1;
  11. }
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Postby venkat » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:47 pm

thanks for your replay plusminus,
actually i need to pass data "from activity to subacitivity" not "subactivity to activity" :)
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Postby plusminus » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:54 pm

Hello venkat,

the Tutorial description is : "Passing data to SubActivities"

I extracted relevant lines for you:
MainActivity (perhaps on Button Click):
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  1.                     Intent i = new Intent(MainActivity.this,
  2.  
  3.                                              SubActivityWithResult.class);
  4.  
  5.                    
  6.  
  7.                     /* Create a bundle that will  
  8.  
  9.                      * hold will be passed to the
  10.  
  11.                      * SubActivityover the Intent */
  12.  
  13.                     Bundle b = new Bundle();
  14.  
  15.                     b.putString("DEFAULTTEXT", "Some Default blabla...");
  16.  
  17.                     i.putExtras(b);
  18.  
  19.                     // We use SUB_ACTIVITY_REQUEST_CODE as an 'identifier'
  20.  
  21.                     startSubActivity(i, SUB_ACTIVITY_REQUEST_CODE);
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and with the SubActivity do:
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  1.    // ...
  2.  
  3.     @Override
  4.  
  5.     public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
  6.  
  7.         super.onCreate(icicle);
  8.  
  9.         // Apply our subactivity.xml-Layout
  10.  
  11.         setContentView(R.layout.subactivity);
  12.  
  13.        
  14.  
  15.         /* Retrieve the String from the Extra-Bundle
  16.  
  17.          * we started this SubActivity with. */
  18.  
  19.         Bundle b = this.getIntent().getExtras();
  20.  
  21.         String s = b.getString("DEFAULTTEXT");
  22.  
  23.         // Find the EditText defined in the subactivity.xml
  24.  
  25.         ((EditText)findViewById(R.id.subactivity_edit_returnvalue)).setText(s);
  26.  
  27.  
  28.  
  29.         // ...
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Postby venkat » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:09 pm

Thank you very much Plus minus :) ..
i will try it now and let you know if i have any doubt.
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Postby venkat » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:26 pm

it works :)

thank you very much.. :) ;)
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Postby bavarol » Thu May 29, 2008 10:51 am

Hi

I have understood the way you pass primitive Type objects but it's not so clear how it can pass a more complex Object between Activities.

It should be something like this, shouldn't it?

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  1. Intent intent = new Intent(InvokingActivity.this, InvokedActivity.class);
  2. intent.putExtra("anObject",object) ;
  3. startSubActivity(intent, 0);
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  1. Bundle bundle = this.getIntent().getExtras();
  2. if ( bundle != null ) {
  3.         Object object = bundle.get("anObject"); <-- Error
  4. }
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However I get an error :
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The Method get(String) is undefined for type Bundle


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How can I pass objects between activities?

Cheers


P.S.:I have the SDK m3rc22a.
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showAlert problem

Postby feelingAndroid » Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:23 am

hi plusminus,
This line is something wrong :showAlert("SubActivity returned",0, "ReturnValue: " + data,
"OK", false); Eclipse shows as follows:
The method showAlert(CharSequence, int, CharSequence, CharSequence, boolean) in the type
ApplicationContext is not applicable for the arguments (String, String, String, boolean)
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Postby mrdanger » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:16 pm

Hello everbody,

i get the failure message
"... List Views can't have unspecified size"

Can you help me?

About my Probleme and the solution
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Postby darolla » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:40 pm

thanks for this. but in the actual sdk there are some changes.

here comes the clue :roll:

this way the subactivity is called:
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  2. Intent intent = new Intent();
  3.  
  4. intent.setClass(this, SubActivity.class);
  5.  
  6. startActivityForResult(intent, 1234);
  7.  
  8.  
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this way the "result" is given back to the calling activity
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  1.  
  2. @Override
  3.  
  4. protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
  5.  
  6.         super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
  7.  
  8.  
  9.  
  10.         Log.d(TAG, "" + requestCode);
  11.  
  12.         Log.d(TAG, "" + resultCode);
  13.  
  14.         Log.d(TAG, "" + data.getStringExtra( "result" ) );
  15.  
  16. }      
  17.  
  18.  
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this way the "result" is send in the subactivity
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  1.  
  2. Button someExitButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.someExitButton);
  3.  
  4. someExitButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
  5.  
  6.     public void onClick(View view) {
  7.  
  8.         Intent data = new Intent();
  9.  
  10.         data.putExtra( "result", theResultString );
  11.  
  12.         setResult( RESULT_OK, data );
  13.  
  14.         finish();
  15.  
  16.     }
  17.  
  18. });                            
  19.  
  20.  
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greetings,
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Postby Artur79 » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:57 pm

a line (adjusted to orginal code)

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  2. intent.setClass(this, SubActivityWithResult.class);
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  4.  
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doesn't work
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import

Postby ioRek » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:36 pm

what's the import needed for showalert, still can't find it RHA
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Postby xenon » Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:09 pm

Unfortunately, like Artur79 already mentioned, the following line doesn't work:

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  1. intent.setClass(this, SubActivityWithResult.class);
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Error message

The method setClass(Context, Class<?>) in the type Intent is not applicable for the arguments (new View.OnClickListener(){}, Class<SubActivityWithResult>) MainActivity.java subactivitywithresult/src/com/example/subactivitywithresult line 28 Java Problem



Someone knows how to fix this?
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Postby Erykgecko » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:33 pm

ok, I have an activity that calls a subactivity, based on this code. so thats fine, it all works, i can call my subactivity, select something and it passes the data back to my activity... Groovy,

however, if i switch to my subactivity, then decide i don't want to select anything, i want to just return to my normal activity, i hit the back button on my phone.

this breaks my app... and i get the standard force close. So I figured i would try adding onStop() and onDestroy() to my sub activity, and in them just called the finish() that should pass it back to the main activity.. alas it will not work...

I'm sure theres a really simple answer i'm missing, but I can't seem to figure it out...

any suggestions?

-edit-

OK, Figured it,

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  1.    @Override
  2.  
  3.    public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
  4.  
  5.            if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK){
  6.  
  7.                    data.putExtra("blah", "");
  8.  
  9.                    filebrowser.this.setResult(SUCCESS_RETURN_CODE,data);
  10.  
  11.                    filebrowser.this.finish();
  12.  
  13.                    super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
  14.  
  15.            }
  16.  
  17.            return true;
  18.  
  19.    }
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Help. App crashes and dont understand why?

Postby luthepa1 » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:46 am

Ok I'm a noob who cant understand why my app crashes with a "Force Close" exception. I basically am following this post for learning how to work with sub-activities and return data from that sub-activity. I can get it to work using a test method by just returning a string value in quotes. But when I add
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  1. EditText txtWorkoutName = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.newTxtName);
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it will crash even though I dont even pass the txtWorkoutName variable back through the intent.

Here is what works

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  2. public class neweditworkout extends Activity {
  3.  
  4.     /** Called when the activity is first created. */
  5.  
  6.     @Override
  7.  
  8.     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  9.  
  10.         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  11.  
  12.         //Inflate View
  13.  
  14.         setContentView(R.layout.neweditworkout);
  15.  
  16.         final Button btnSelect = (Button)findViewById(R.id.newButtonSelect);
  17.  
  18.         btnSelect.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {      
  19.  
  20.                         //@Override
  21.  
  22.                         public void onClick(View v) {
  23.  
  24.                         //EditText txtWorkoutName = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.newTxtName);
  25.  
  26.  
  27.  
  28.                     Intent data = new Intent();
  29.  
  30.                     data.putExtra("result", "TEST_DATA");
  31.  
  32.                                 neweditworkout.this.setResult(RESULT_OK, data);
  33.  
  34.                                 neweditworkout.this.finish();
  35.  
  36.                         }
  37.  
  38.         });
  39.  
  40.     }
  41.  
  42. }
  43.  
  44.  
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And here is what cause the application the crash when clicking the button
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  2. public class neweditworkout extends Activity {
  3.  
  4.     /** Called when the activity is first created. */
  5.  
  6.     @Override
  7.  
  8.     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  9.  
  10.         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  11.  
  12.         //Inflate View
  13.  
  14.         setContentView(R.layout.neweditworkout);
  15.  
  16.         final Button btnSelect = (Button)findViewById(R.id.newButtonSelect);
  17.  
  18.         btnSelect.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {      
  19.  
  20.                         //@Override
  21.  
  22.                         public void onClick(View v) {
  23.  
  24.                         EditText txtWorkoutName = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.newTxtName);
  25.  
  26.  
  27.  
  28.                     Intent data = new Intent();
  29.  
  30.                     data.putExtra("result", "TEST_DATA");
  31.  
  32.                                 neweditworkout.this.setResult(RESULT_OK, data);
  33.  
  34.                                 neweditworkout.this.finish();
  35.  
  36.                         }
  37.  
  38.                 });
  39.  
  40.     }
  41.  
  42. }
  43.  
  44.  
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And here is the onActivityResult from my main activity
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  1.  
  2.     // Listen for results from sub-activities.
  3.  
  4.     //@Override
  5.  
  6.         protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
  7.  
  8.                 super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
  9.  
  10.              Toast.makeText(this, "Returned: "+data.getStringExtra("result"), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
  11.  
  12.         }
  13.  
  14.  
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As I say, just uncommenting that one line causes the crashes.

Thanks in advance, Paul.
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Postby luthepa1 » Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:21 am

I found the problem. Please excuse my previous post. My findViewById was pointing to a TextView instead of a EditText view. All works now :D
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