Passing text of an EditText

erbedo · by **erbedo** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:20 pm

Hi
I have two activities. The first simply displays a textView, and editText and a Button. What I want to do is, when a user click the button, I'd to start the second activity, passing the text typed in the EditText box.

What I've done is the following:
this is the first activity

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        protected void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
 
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
                super.onCreate(icicle);
 
                this.setContentView(R.layout.selection);
 
                Button btn = (Button)this.findViewById(R.id.selectionOk);
 
                btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
 
                        public void onClick(View arg0) {
 
                                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
                                Intent myIntent = new Intent();
 
                                myIntent.setAction("com.google.android.tvsportfinder.DO_SEARCH");
 
                                startActivity(myIntent);
 
                        }               
 
                });     
 
        }
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Before startActivity, I need to pass the data, but

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myIntent.setData()
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picks only a ContentURI, not simple text. So, this is the first question: how to pass a simlpe string via an Intent?

Secondly, the handler of the Intent is my other activity. In the AndroidManifest.xml I've wrote:

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        <activity android:name="SecondActivity">
 
                        <intent-filter>
 
                                <action android:name="com.google.android.myapp.DO_SEARCH"/>
 
                        </intent-filter>
 
                </activity>
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but when I click the button on the first activity, I got that there's no activity that can handle this action. So, how to make my second activity able to receive such Intent?

Thank you

certron · by **certron** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:58 am

While I don't have all the answers, I believe it should be possible to pass information between Intents through the use of the bundle / extras functionality.

I would recommend going through the Notepad tutorials that Google provides, even if it is just to see how a whole application is broken into pieces. The bundle feature that I am talking about is covered in the second version (and then removed as the project is improved in the third version): http://code.google.com/android/intro/tutorial-ex2.html

Good luck on your project! This sounds very much like something I will be doing soon, actually, where I am passing back the text entered to another part of the application.

erbedo · by **erbedo** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:28 am

Hi
I solved that adding a String to the Intent. On the receiver side, I simply used

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getIntent().getString("pattern");
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Thank you

Passing text of an EditText

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