Question

Am developing an app which am using a dashboard. I want the dashboard to be the default activity. If user opens the app for the first time or has logged out, i want to redirect him to login/sign up page as the first page. If user has already signed in i want to direct him to dashboard as the default page. how can i accomplice this. Is there a good tutorial on this, i will appreciate most. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can do something like this

class AuthenticatedActivity extends Activity{
  onCreate(){
    super.onCreate();
    if(!isAuthenticated()){
      Intent showAuthActivityIntent = new Intent();
      startActivityForResult(showAuthActivity);
      finish();
      return;
    }
  }
}

class AnyActivity extends AuthenticatedActivity{
  onCreate(){
    super.onCreate();
    if(isFinishing())
      return;
  }
}

And have your dashboard as the launcher Activity.

Modify the isAuthenticated() block to make it suitable to your use-case.

You might also want to make your SignupActivity a singleton Activity.