Send Data to Another Activity - Simple Android Login

In this article you will learn how to send data from one Activity  to another Activity,I created two activity AndroidLoginActivity and LoginSuccess, in the LoinSuccess Activity will display logged user name.

•  Create Android project visit my previous  example  First Android Application in Eclipse Hello world Android Example, Un check the 

Add OnClickListener to Button and Send Data to next Activity

// Set OnClickListner to the login button 
Button login = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_login);

login.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

 @Override
 public void onClick(View v) {
  // Get user Name
  EditText loginName = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txt_userName);
  String name = loginName.getText().toString();

  // create Intent and set LoginSuccess Activity 
  Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),
    LoginSuccess.class);

  // put values to intent which will get in the LoginSuccess    Activity
 
  intent.putExtra("name", name);

  // Start LoginSuccess Activity 
  startActivity(intent);

 }
});

Create AndroidLoginActivity 

Right the project and create Java class and name it as AndroidLoginActivity, copy and past bellow code.

package jsupport.com;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class AndroidLoginActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.login);
       
     /* Set OnClickListner to the login button */
        Button login = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_login);
        
        login.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
   
   @Override
   public void onClick(View v) {
    
    EditText loginName = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txt_userName);  
    String  name  = loginName.getText().toString();
    
    Intent intent  = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),LoginSuccess.class);
    
    intent.putExtra("name", name);
    
    startActivity(intent);
     
   }
  });
    }
}

Create new layout  for AndroidLoginActivity

Right click on res/layout , New-> Android XML give the file name as login , copy and past bellow xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
    <TextView android:text="Login here" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" android:id="@+id/textView1" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="180dp" ></TextView>
    <TextView android:text="User Name " android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" android:id="@+id/textView2" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="126dp"></TextView>
    <EditText android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/txt_userName" android:layout_width="272dp">
        <requestFocus></requestFocus>
    </EditText>
    <TextView android:text="Password" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" android:id="@+id/textView3" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></TextView>
    <EditText android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:inputType="textPassword" android:id="@+id/password" android:layout_width="272dp"></EditText>
    <Button android:text="Login" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="126dp" android:id="@+id/btn_login" ></Button>
</LinearLayout>

Get Value from Intent

/* Get values from Intent */
 Intent intent =  getIntent();
        
 String name    =  intent.getStringExtra("name");

Create LoginSuccess Activity 

Right the project and create Java class and name it as  LoginSuccess  , copy and past bellow code.

package jsupport.com;


import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class LoginSuccess extends Activity {

 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.success);
        
        TextView txt_loggedName = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txt_loggedName);
        
        /* Get values from Intent */
        Intent intent = getIntent();
        
        String name  = intent.getStringExtra("name");
        
        txt_loggedName.setText(name);
 }
}

Create new layout  for LoginSuccess 

Right click on res/layout , New-> Android XML give the file name as success, copy and past bellow xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:weightSum="1">
    <TextView android:text="Hello" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" android:id="@+id/textView1" android:layout_width="158dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="0.06"></TextView>
    <TextView android:text="Java Srilankan Support" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:id="@+id/txt_loggedName"></TextView>
    
</LinearLayout>

Add AndroidLoginActivity and LoginSuccess  to AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="jsupport.com"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0">
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />

    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:name=".AndroidLoginActivity"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity android:name="LoginSuccess"></activity>

    </application>
</manifest>

AndroidLoginActivity   is the main activity


Download application source code from here  Simple Android Login