Question

I am relatively new to the Eclipse & ADT plugin world, so any answers can you please explain what it’s doing? It would be very helpful.

Basically, I have a list in one activity that will be populated by a HTTP request from a database API, this I am still working on. However, what I wish to know, is am I able to take the string in the ListItem and give that to a TextView in the next activity?

So for example, I tap ‘Record 1’ and it takes ‘Record 1’ and puts it inside a variable, then sends the user to the next screen, and inserts the variable into a TextView. Is this possible?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Get what you want from the adapter, then put that into the Intent that starts the new activity:

    listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
            String string = parent.getAdapter().getItem(position);
            Intent intent = new Intent(this, nextActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra("text", string);
            startActivity(intent);
        }
    });

In the new Activity you then get the Intent that started the new Activity and get the String you put into it:

String data = getIntent().getStringExtra("text");