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Ingrid Cooper
Ingrid Cooper

Reputation: 1211

onActivityResult() method not being called in an activity that extends SherlockMapActivity

I have an activity "SearchActivity" which extends SherlockActivity. In this activity I have an options menu which has a search bar and a "Go" button. The data that is entered in the search bar has to be passed to the previous activity "NavigationActivity" which extends SherlockMapActivity.

This is a part of my code of SearchActivity:

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {

        case R.id.go:
           Intent intent = new Intent();
           intent.putExtra("SearchText", enteredText);
           setResult(200, intent);
           startActivityForResult(intent, 100);
           finish();
           break;

    }
    return true;
}

This is the onActivityResult() method in NavigationActivity:

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    System.out.println("In onActivityResult method");
    if(data != null && resultCode == 200 && requestCode == 100) {
        String text = data.getStringExtra("SearchText");
        System.out.println("The data is: " + text);
        Toast.makeText(this, "The text entered in the search bar is: " + text, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }       
}

The problem is that the onActivityResult() method is never getting called in the NavigationActivity. On pressing the "Go" button I'm able to navigate from the SearchActivity to the NavigationActivity but not able to get the get the data in the NavigationActivity. Could you please help me in this aspect?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9058

Answers (3)

Hitesh Jain
Hitesh Jain

Reputation: 408

Please see the sample code below and modify your code accordingly.

Navigation Activity

public class NavigationActivity extends Activity {

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.navigationActivity);

    Button btnTest = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    btn1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) 
                    {
          Intent intent = new Intent(Launcher.this,Activity2.class);
          startActivityForResult(intent, 100);
        }

    });

}

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) 
    {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

    if(resultCode ==  200)
    {

        String enteredText = "no action defined for this requestcode :"+resultCode;
        if(requestCode == 100)
        {
            enteredText = (String)data.getStringExtra("SearchText");

        }
        Toast.makeText(Launcher.this,enteredText,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
    else
    {
        Toast.makeText(Launcher.this,"some exception occurred",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}
}

SEARCH ACTIVITY

public class SearchActivity extends Activity{


@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.search);

    Button btnGO = (Button)findViewById(R.id.buttonGo);
    btnGO .setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Intent intent = new Intent();
            EditText edtSearchBar = (EditText )findViewById(R.id.tvTest);

               intent.putExtra("SearchText", edtSearchBar .getText().toString());

            setResult(200,intent);
            finish();

        }
    });
}
}

Upvotes: 1

Matt Handy
Matt Handy

Reputation: 30025

Doesn't it need to be the other way around?

From my understanding you need to call startActivityForResult(..) from your NavigationActivity and not from the SearchActivity.

In NavigationActivity:

Intent intent= new Intent(context, SearchActivity.class);
startActivityForResult(intent, 200);

And then in the SearchActivity call

setResult(..);
finish();

to get the result back to the calling activity and trigger your onActivityResult(..)method.

See this related answer.

Upvotes: 1

Nermeen
Nermeen

Reputation: 15973

startActivityForResult is used to return data from called Activity to calling activity, i.e. if activity A is calling B, you can use startActivityForResult to return data from B to A

Upvotes: 0

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