How to pass a value from one Activity to another in Android?

Question

I have created an Activity with a AutuCompleteTextView[ACTV] and button. I enter some text in the ACTV then press the button. After I press the button I want the Activity to go to another Activity. In the second Activity I just want to display the text entered in ACTV(of the first actvity) as a TextView.

I know how to start the second activity which is as below:

Intent i = new Intent(this, ActivityTwo.class);
startActivity(i);

I have coded this to obtain the text entered from the ACTV.

AutoCompleteTextView textView = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autocomplete);
CharSequence getrec=textView.getText();

My question here is how to pass "getrec" (after I press the button) from the first Activity to the second. And later recieve "getrec" in the second activity.

Please assume that I have created the event handler class for the button by using "onClick(View v)"

Answer 1

Thats trivial, use Intent.putExtra to pass data to activity you start. Use then Bundle.getExtra to retrieve it.

There are lots of such questions already http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=How+to+pass+a+value+from+one+Activity+to+another+in+Android be sure to use search first next time.

Answer 2

You can use Bundle to do the same in Android

  //Create the intent
  Intent i = new Intent(this, ActivityTwo.class);
  AutoCompleteTextView textView = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autocomplete);
  String getrec=textView.getText().toString();

  //Create the bundle
  Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
  //Add your data to bundle
  bundle.putString(“stuff”, getrec);  
  //Add the bundle to the intent
  i.putExtras(bundle);

  //Fire that second activity
   startActivity(i);

Now in your second activity retrieve your data from the bundle:

    //Get the bundle
    Bundle bundle = getIntent().getExtras();

    //Extract the data…
    String stuff = bundle.getString(“stuff”);