How do I get a string from a view? To be more specific I have 36 buttons in a tabview. When I click the button it calls an
android:onClick="onClick"
from my XML to call the method onClick(View v)
. I then want to pass variables via an intent to another activity based on the button clicked. Now I know my View of the button pressed is 'v', what I want to know is how to take that view and make it a string that I can manipulate.
In your xml define of Button, set tag for it:
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="40dip"
android:text="Btn 1"
android:tag="1"android:onClick="onClick"/>
And in onClick
function:
public void onClick(View v)
{
Button button = (Button) v;
String tag = button.getTag.toString();
//now open new Activity with this tag
Intent intent = new Itent();
Bundle b = new Bundle();
b.putString("tag", tag);
intent.putExtras(b);
startActivity(intent);
}
Do you mean this? It's explicit class casting, a Java language feature.
public void onClick(View v)
{
Button button = (Button) v;
String info = button.getText();
Intent intent = new Intent();
.....
}