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Hesam
Hesam

Reputation: 53600

Android, How can I load long text into an activity?

I have a long text that I want to show it page by page. For my first try, I created 10 activity and put some button that when user clicks On it, next activity shows.

I read somewhere that I can load all my text in one activity with using Intent. is it possible? How it is possible? I don't want user scroll the page.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 919

Answers (4)

wnafee
wnafee

Reputation: 2146

Let's say you have your activity called MyTextActivity, then in your button click listener, you pass on the text you want into an intent to your activity:

Intent i = new Intent(this, MyTextActivity.class);
i.putExtra("myText", "this is the text you want to display in the next page");
startActivity(i);

Then in your MyTextActivity, you put the following in onCreate():

String textToDisplay = "";
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
if (extras != null){
   textToDisplay = extras.getString("myText");
}

then you set your TextView text to this text.

Upvotes: 1

Travis
Travis

Reputation: 3757

I think the answer is "don't do this". Android runs on a variety of devices, and you should handle the cases where it won't fit on the screen that matches the device you're using for testing. Consider tablets, for example.

Upvotes: 0

Gabriel Negut
Gabriel Negut

Reputation: 13960

If the text is static,you can put it in a string resource and access it in all your activities. Otherwise, you can attach the string to the intent, using putExtra.

Upvotes: 0

mah
mah

Reputation: 39807

Assuming you already have a TextView and a Button in your activity, when the Button is pressed you do not need to go to a new activity. Instead, you can change the content of your existing text view. Just use TextView.setText() to change it.

Upvotes: 0

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