Question

I am trying to pass a string from one activity to another. I retrieved the information like this:

Intent openReadMail = getIntent();
String readfrom = openReadMail.getStringExtra("from");

Now I want to display this string on screen. I this xml TextView element:

 <TextView
        android:id="@+id/from"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"/>

but I can’t convert the string to a textview, is there a better way of doing this? thanks for your help guys!

Answer 1

You have to create a variable for your TextView and then set the text.

TextView fromtxt = (TextView) findViewById(R.Id.from);

Fromtxt.setText(readfrom);