Sustaining EditText data through activity changes

Question

I can't seem to use data that is in an EditText box.

I have one activity for entering a url and a submit button.

When the user clicks submit, a new activity opens as a WebView and should display the url that the user typed in the EditText box.

This should be the simplest of tasks but I can't find how to do it anywhere...

Answer 1

when you create the Intent to start the next activity, you will use Intent.putExtra(...) to bundle the url and set the action to VIEW.

see the examples here.

Answer 2

You can write below code

  Intent myIntent = new Intent(CurrentActivity.this, NextActivity.class);
  myIntent.putExtra("Url", edittext.getText());

And you can fetch this string in NextActivity using

  String url = this.getIntent().getExtras().getString("Url");