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marcorei
marcorei

Reputation: 343

How to access the Class of the Activity defined in parentActivityName

For every activity which has a logical parent we define that parent Activity in the Manifest like so:

<activity
        android:name=".ui.activity.MyActivity"
        android:label="@string/activity_title"
        android:parentActivityName=".ui.activity.ParentActivity"
        android:theme="@style/My.Theme" >
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
            android:value=".ui.activity.ParentActivity" />
</activity>

Is there a way to access the Class referenced in either @parentActivityName or meta-data@value in MyActivity? (Please note that I don't want to access the parent Activity instance, just the Class)

The reason is that for tracking purposes we want to generate a path-like String for each Activity. In this case this String would be /parent_activity/my_activity – and since the hierachy is already defined in the Manifest, best case would be to access it there then to define it twice.

Thank you for your help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 93

Answers (2)

Yuri Misyac
Yuri Misyac

Reputation: 4910

Maybe it will help you NavUtils.getParentActivityName(childActivityInstance)

Upvotes: 1

Slobodan Antonijević
Slobodan Antonijević

Reputation: 2643

You could always go with the easy way: Pass the parent activity name in intent extras as string, in ParentActivity

Intent intent = new Intent(ParentActivity.this, ChildActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("parent_activity_name", "ParentActivity");
...
startActivity(intent);

And then get it in the ChildActivity activity

 Intent intent = getIntent();
 String parentName = intent.getStringExtra("parent_activity_name");

Not sure if there is any other more elegant solution.

Upvotes: 0

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