Declaring Intent Filter in android

Question

Hi,

I have problem in declaring the intents on my app. I have a form with text fields and spinner. I have added a button which onClick must display Datepicker. I have declared the DatePicker as a new class and added to intent onCLick.

date.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View view) 
    {
        Intent i=new Intent(SendMail.this,DatePicker.class);

        startActivity(i);

    }
});

In manifest i have declared

<activity android:name=".DatePicker">

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

Now the problem is when i click the button the whole form is getting reset and all the spinner values are getting vanished. This must be because of declaring the intent wrongly. So, can anyone specify how to declare my intent so that the DatePicker will be called on the main form iteself

Answer 1

You don't need a new activity for a date picker result.

Make your SendMail class to have these components...

public class SendMail extends Activity {

 static final int DATE_DIALOG_ID = 1;

 // date and time
 private int mYear;

 private int mMonth;

 private int mDay;

 public void launchSetDate() {
        showDialog(DATE_DIALOG_ID);
 }
 @Override
 protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
        switch (id) {

            case DATE_DIALOG_ID:
                return new DatePickerDialog(this, mDateSetListener, mYear, mMonth, mDay);
        }
        return null;
 }
 @Override
 protected void onPrepareDialog(int id, Dialog dialog) {
        switch (id) {
            case DATE_DIALOG_ID:
                ((DatePickerDialog) dialog).updateDate(mYear, mMonth, mDay);
                break;
        }
 }
  private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener mDateSetListener = new  DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {

        public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
            mYear = year;
            mMonth = monthOfYear;
            mDay = dayOfMonth;
            // do something with the result
        }
    };
}

Then instead of running startActivity, you call a method launchSetDate();