Question

I am working in android. I am designing a file upload functionality.

This is my layout:

If I fill my entries like as title,price,category and then I press browse button for browse option then I go to BrowseActivity using startActivity(). But when I come back to this activity then all entries which were filled by me disappear. please suggest me what should I do for this so my entered entries save. If I do browse first then fill entries then it works properly.

What should I do for the case in which user first fill entries and then click on the browse button?

Answer 1

Use the SharedPreferences options to save all the Strings in onPause(). You can get them back in onResume() and fill out your text boxes. This is also nice since you can save the values that were entered and restore them each time the user leaves the app for any other reason.

EDIT:

Quick example:

Save your strings like so:

@Override
public void onPause(){
   super.onPause();
   // Save the user preferences during runtime for later use.
   SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences("aName", MODE_PRIVATE);
   SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
   editor.putString("title", "Value of title");
   editor.commit();
}

Then you get get the value back like this.

@Override
public void onResume(){
   SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences("aName", MODE_PRIVATE);
   String title = settings.getString("title");
}