Question

I managed to have a button and then when I click on it, I go to a new activity that is called “TUTORIALONE”

and then I want to display some text in this new activity

so I have something like this

   Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.tutorial1);
        b.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View v) {

            startActivity(new Intent("my.android.TUTORIALONE"));
            TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tutorial1);
                    tv.setText("this is some text);

        }
    });

the problem is that it first displays the text on my button, and then it shows me the new activity, how would I achieve displaying the text on the new activity?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

In your TUTORIALONE activity you probably have an associated xml file for displaying content. Perhaps it iss set something like this

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.id.TUTORIALONE);
}

In the layout xml file for TUTORIALONE just add something like this

<TextView android:id="@+id/text"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:text="Hello, I am a TextView" />

EDIT

To change the text of this TextView, do something like this in your TUTORIALONE activity.

protected void onStart()
{
    super.onStart();
    TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text);
    tv.setText("this string is set dynamically from java code");
}

Note that the id here (R.id.text) is the same as in the xml file (“@+id/text”)