Question

I am writing my first Android application, and I have been struggling with this for over a week. It seems like the basis of all android applications yet I cannot understand how to do it. For example, if you are in the Android Settings Menu, you have a list and you click on “About”, it takes you to the “About” Actvitiy etc.

I need my app to do that as well, I have 5 menu items that I want to be able to select and go to the Activity for the selected item.

Currently I have my items in a string_array, but I have nothing that corresponds the string name with the activity name I want to goto.

Can somebody please give me some tips? I am really struggling over here, kind of overwhelmed with the documentation. Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Check how its done here in the Settings app. They use a PreferenceActivity and embed the Intent in the XML file.

        <com.android.settings.IconPreferenceScreen
         android:title="@string/radio_controls_title"
         settings:icon="@drawable/ic_settings_wireless">
         <intent
            android:action="android.intent.action.MAIN"
            android:targetPackage="com.android.settings"
            android:targetClass="com.android.settings.WirelessSettings" />
        </com.android.settings.IconPreferenceScreen>