Question

I am making a calendar/appointment app on android to develop my skills the opening screen has a calendar, a textview(dateselected) and a button(create). the textview(dateselected) displays the date selected by the user and the create button opens another class where the user fills in appointment details. this second class also has a textview(dateselected2)

how can i carry the text in the dateselected from first class to the dateselected2 in the second class.

i know how to pass data with in a class but im finding it hard to do this among 2 classes. any help would be much appreciated

Answer 1

You can send data from one Activity to another using Intent:

StartActivity.class

Intent i = new Intent(this, MyNewActivity.class);
Intent.putExtra(MY_STRING_KEY, dataselected.getText());
startActivity(i);

NewActivity.class

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstance) {
super.onCreate(savedInstance);

Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
String text = extras.getString(MY_STRING_KEY);

    dataselected.setText(text);
}