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Greggz
Greggz

Reputation: 1809

Android reutilizing Activity

I have 2 activities. A and B. A has a action bar with 4 items. Each item display a different list of movies. B extends A cause I want to be able to use the action bar to change the movie list.

So my question is, can I use the same instance of activity (B) to show the different movie lists when I press an item in the action bar ?

 Activity B

ACTIVITY B

 Activity A

ACTIVITY A

Upvotes: 1

Views: 35

Answers (2)

M090009
M090009

Reputation: 1139

I think you are a bit over complicating it, you can use one activity ActivityA to have the actions (tabs) and the list (Recyclerview). When you click on a tab you update your list with the movies you want. Or you can create a Fragment to hold your movies list instead.

Also I suggest that you use tabs instead of actionbar actions they are more user friendly and apply more to this case. If you go with the tabs you can have a Viewpager and you can swipe between your movie lists fragments. Here is all you need for the tabbed view

Upvotes: 1

andrey7mel
andrey7mel

Reputation: 41

Yes, you can override method click action bar buttons.

Where you click on "Popular" in A, you use your method: 

public void clickPopular(){
    //some action for A
}

Where you click "Popular" in B, you use your @Override method: 

@Override
public void clickPopular(){
    //some action for B
}

Upvotes: 0

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