Question

I am passing data from Activity A to MessageDetailActivity. Is OnCreate() the right place to set the text?

public class MessageDetailActivity extends Activity {

        private TextView bodyTextView;
         /** Called when the activity is first created. */
        @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setupUI();
        }

        public void setupUI(){
            Bundle bundle = getIntent().getExtras();

            this.bodyTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.bodyTextView);
            Log.d("VALUE IS", bundle.getString("message"));
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), bundle.getString("message"),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            bodyTextView.setText(bundle.getString("message"));
        }
    }

Answer 1

If MessageDetailActivity is a singletop activity, oncreate will be called only once. so onResume would be a better place to set text.