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John Jared
John Jared

Reputation: 800

Android get text typed in EditText

I have an editText, How do I get the text typed in it by the user ?

example, this is my editText

<EditText
   android:id="@+id/editText3"
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
   android:maxLength="10">
</EditText>

and the user typed Hi, in my next Activity how do I make if the user typed Hi show in the next Activity Hello.. etc if the user typed How are you next activity it shows I'm fine ?

What do I use? and is it related to Database ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3474

Answers (3)

stanga bogdan
stanga bogdan

Reputation: 724

Let's assume that your class's name is : Main

First declare a static public String : 

public static String myText;

Now, in your OnCreate method type:

EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3);

Finally, in you OnClick method type:

myText = getText().toString();
Intent x = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), NewActivity.class);
startActivity(x);

Now, in your next activity you can access the String only using : 

Main.myText

For exemple:

TextView txt =(TextView) findViewById(R.id.textviewid);
txt.setText(Main.myText);

Upvotes: 1

Ayush
Ayush

Reputation: 42450

First, pick up the text in the current activity, i.e. the activity where the view hosts the EditText component.

EditText txt = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText3);
String input = txt.getText().toString();

Now, add it as an extra data and call your new activity.

Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), NewActivity.class);
i.putExtra("input",input);
startActivity(i);

In NewActivity inside onCreate() :

Intent i = getIntent();
String input = i.getStringExtra("input");

and, voila, you have the entered text in the new activity.

To set this to the new TextView :

TextView txtView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.yourTextView);
txtView.setText(input);

Upvotes: 3

Kazekage Gaara
Kazekage Gaara

Reputation: 15052

The simplest way to go would be use Intent's getExtra() and putExtra() method, do a simple String comparison and return your results.

Here's something to get you started : How do I get extra data from intent on Android? and How do I compare strings in Java?.

But from what you have written, seems you are trying to make a chatting application wherein your application responds to the messages typed in by the user. For this, I would recommend you to use AIML. It's a long long shot, but worth it.

Upvotes: 1

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