Passing data between activities from listview to a

Question

I am trying to pass the data from this main activity to another activity

I am successful in sending data between activities .... Like the data from Edit-text to next activity through putExtra and GetExtra methods and passing as intents

• But i am facing challenge in this particular task where it involves sending data from listview to an ordinary activity
• data is populated in the list view from JSON so when on click of a row how can i send the data from that row to a new activity

Any Ideas,

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ativity_main.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/listViewID"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" 

        android:layout_gravity="center">
    </ListView>

</LinearLayout>

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    // url to make request
    private static String url = "http://54.218.73.244:7002/";
    List<Item> yourData = new ArrayList<Item>();

    ProgressDialog progressDialog;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        //Instantiating ProgressDialog with onCreate method
        progressDialog=new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
        new ParsingAsync().execute();

    }

    private class ParsingAsync extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void>
    {

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            super.onPreExecute();
            progressDialog=ProgressDialog.show(MainActivity.this, "", "Please Wait", true, false);


        }

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            // Creating JSON Parser instance
            JSONObjParser jParser = new JSONObjParser();

            // getting JSON string from URL
            JSONArray json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(url);

            try {
                for (int i = 0; i < json.length(); i++) {
                    JSONObject c = json.getJSONObject(i);

                    // Storing each json item in variable
                    String NAME=c.getString("restaurantNAME");

                    yourData.add(new Item(NAME));
                }
            } catch (JSONException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            super.onPostExecute(result);
            progressDialog.dismiss();
            ListView yourListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listViewID);
            ListAdapter customAdapter = new ListAdapter(MainActivity.this, R.layout.itemlistrow, yourData);
            yourListView.setAdapter(customAdapter);
            yourListView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

                @Override
                public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                        int position, long id) {
                    // When clicked, show a toast with the TextView text
                    if(position == 0)
                    {
                        //code specific to first list item    
                        Intent myIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this,CopperChimneyDesc.class);
                        startActivity(myIntent);
                    }else if(position == 1)
                    {
                        //Intent myIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this,AroyDesc.class);
                        //startActivity(myIntent);                  
                    }

                }
            });
        }

    }

}

item.java

public class Item{
    private String Name;

    public Item(String name){
        this.Name = name;
    }
    public String getName(){
        return Name;
    }
}

Thanks,

Answer 1

You can save the data in sharedPreferences and can access it from other activity. Just an idea :)

Answer 2

intent.putExtra("City Name", String.valueOf(lvCity.getSelectedItem()));

try this one to cast.

Answer 3

Ok so you would do

String item = yourData.get(position).getName(); 

Then you can add the string to intent using:

intent.putExtra("restaurent", item);

On the other end if its textview you would do

textView.setText(getIntent().getExtras().getString("restaurent")); 

Answer 4

you can parcle data and send it to other activity with putxtera method.please see How to store values in onSaveInstanceState() and retrive?

Answer 5

Since you have the index of the item in the listview the user has clicked you can get the item value from the adapter:

String value = (String)customAdapter.getItem(position);
Intent myIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this,CopperChimneyDesc.class);
intent.putExtra("restaurant_name", value);
startActivity(myIntent);