Creating & managing activities in Android App

This simple tutorial shows you to create a method in Eclipse that allows you to move to a different activity within your Android app.

In this tutorial we will create 4 files. (main.xml, Main.java, second.xml, Second.java)
The idea is simple, click a button on main screen and go to second screen.

Main files :
Add a button to your main.xml file and give it id button1.
In you main.java file find onCreate method and add this code

@Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

       

        Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);

       

        b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                    

                     public void onClick(View v) {

                           startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, Second.class));

                          

                     }

              });

    }

So we can easily find button on our main screen using  findViewById method.
Then we add listener to a button and if someone click the button we lunch startActivity method.
startActivity method accept Intent(ourcontext, class we want to lunch) as a parameter.



Second files:
Now create second.xml and second.java

In second.xml add another button so you can go back to your main screen and set id to back.
It is a good idea to use strings resources, so in strings addnew String MainMenu and add value  "Main".
 In your second.xml file add this to your button:


android:text="@string/MainMenu"

Add code in second.java file:

 

@Override

       protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

              // TODO Auto-generated method stub

              super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

              setContentView(R.layout.second);

             

              Button button = (Button) findViewById(id.back);

              button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                    

                     public void onClick(View v) {

                                  startActivity(new Intent(Second.this, Main.class));

                          

                          

                     }

              });

             

          }

We added to second.java file setContentView(R.layout.second), this is layout that our class will use(second.xml).


Now the last very important think is modifying the  AndroidManifest.xml

We have to add our activity:

<activity

            android:name=".Second"

            android:label="@string/second_title">

           

        </activity>

Thanks for following tutorial.
Adam Bielecki