Question

I’m simply trying to carry a string onto the next activity without having to define an entire object for the task. I’ve seen similar solutions and gotten them to work BUT without using AsyncTask to create the intent.

protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result) {
        if (loggedIn && hasPin) {

            Intent intent = new Intent(UniteActivity.this,
                    WebViewActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra(PASSED_USERNAME, passUser);
            startActivity(intent);
        }
        if (loggedIn && !hasPin) {

            Intent intent = new Intent(UniteActivity.this,
                    CreatePinActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra(PASSED_USERNAME, passUser);
            startActivity(intent);

PASSED_USERNAME is a public static constant to hold the package name, just as the putExtra() method requires. I then try to pull the value out in the next activity.

Intent extras = getIntent();

            String username = extras.getStringExtra(UniteActivity.PASSED_USERNAME);

            // carry username to next activity
            Intent intent = new Intent(CreatePinActivity.this,WebViewActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra(PASSED_USERNAME, username);
            startActivity(intent);

There is never a String to pull out, the value of username is always null. I’ve gone through the debugger and found that the Eclipse IDE debugger shows different intent ID’s between the activities, they are never consistant. Is it possible that AsyncTask is interfereing somehow because it splits into a seperate thread?

Answer 1

I don’t know if this applies to your problem, because I can’t see from your code snippet if the intermediary activity is freshly created or not.

BUT: the getIntent()-method always returns the first Intent that started the activity. If the activity remains in the background and receives a new Intent this value does not get updated automatically. You have to override onNewIntent(...) and manually call setIntent(...) for this to work (or do all your stuff directly there).

So just for the case that you do not run your posted code in the onCreate() method please check if you did not miss to fetch the real intent you are interested in.