Question

I start an activity from the main one using a Intent:

Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), InfoChiamata.class);
i.putExtra("codice_cliente", codice_cliente[tv_clicked_id]);
i.putExtra("descrizione_chiamata", descrizione_chiamata[tv_clicked_id]);
startActivity(i);

How can I edit the main activity ui from the activity started whit Intent?
How can I know when i return back from the second activity to the main one? I tried to Override the onResume and onStart method but the application doesn’t even start. I tryed to override onRestart method when it get called the application crash.

@Override
protected void onRestart() { 
    if(call_back == 1)
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "asd", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

call_back variable is set to 1 from the secondary activity, when it is launched.

Thanks, Mattia

Answer 1

try startActivityForResult instead which gives you a callback to your first activity. also don’t use the application context, unless absolutely necessary, use the activity context instead. Also when you call certain methods from the activity class and override them like onRestart or onStop or onResume you have to do super.onResume() inside the method first, making sure that the app life cycle is not broken.