Question

Situation is this:

1. Activity A calls getLocation() method from Class B.

Class B handles obtaining GPS locations.

2 Activity A should finish once Class B has finished retrieving GPS
location.

Activity A calls something like:

B.getLocation()
this.finish()

i.e. gets the location using method from B and then finishes itself. In reality, A closes before B has a chance to get the location.

How do I structure this correctly so that A waits till B has finished?

Answer 1

The design here is lacking. In fact, you can’t just call one Activity‘s method for the other one, since only one Activity can be in foreground at the moment. Your activities should communicate using Intents. Here’s how it should work:

1. Activity A starts Activity B using an Intent
2. Activity B gets location and returns it to Activity A, using the setResult() method
3. Activity A reads the result from Activity B in its onActivityResult() method
4. Activity A finishes

This feels like a better implementation. Actually, if Activity B does just get location, you can simple implement it as a Service and bind it to Activity A. Hope this helps.