How to pass data between activity through Html hyperlink in Android TextView?

Question

I have a TextView that is Hyperlinked. The code like this

textPaymentMethod.setText(
Html.fromHtml("<b><a href=\"shippinginfo-activity://shippinginfo\">Add Payment Method</a></b>"));
tvPaymentMethod.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

When a user Click on AddPayment method it will go Another Activity like ActivityX. But my problem is, I want to pass some data from current Activityto ActivityX. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

You can pass data using an object. Else you can use Put Extra. Refer to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4967740/transfer-data-from-one-activity-to-another-activity — Skynet, Apr 24 '13 at 10:47
Sorry, I don't need this. Actually it is not the perfect solution. Thanks. — androidcodehunter, Apr 24 '13 at 10:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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Have you seen the answer to this Question. Look in the comments which detail a method for passing data to another activity through the use of strings.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Apr 24 '13 at 10:49

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Although it would have been good to popular this with the answer instead of the link to the answer. This link did help me though so +1 – Simon Jan 16 '16 at 19:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 24 '13 at 10:49

In order to move from one activity to other write the following code

//move to next activity
Intent intent = new Intent(FirstActivity.this, SecondActivity.class);
//pass your data here
intent.putExtra("data", <your data value>);
//start Activity
startIntent(intent);
In Activity3, to get your edit text value do the following.

//get your data value here which is passed in FirstActivity
String data = getIntent().getStringExtra("data");

The variable "data" is the final output which you are looking for.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 24 '13 at 11:01

Add this in your current Activity

Intent activity= new Intent(Activity.this, ActivityX.class);

activity.putExtra("key", <value>);

startIntent(activity);

ActivityX: in OnCreate()

Intent value = getIntent();
String str_value= (String) usrid.getSerializableExtra("key");

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

So I figured it out with Phil's help and I read this answer here: handle textview link click in my android app

Add the following intent-filter to the manifest activity you want to hyperlink to, of course replacing the scheme with your own scheme:

<intent-filter>
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
    <data android:scheme="com.package.name" />  
</intent-filter>

Now, create your hyperlink with the scheme and put it within your string file. My link has the same android:scheme as the intent-filter and it is appended by an actual external link to a site on the internet. In my case, I want to click on the link, it must open another activity and the other activity has a webview which would display the webpage. This prevents the user from seeing the url of the webpage I have directed them to on the phone.

<string name="signing_in">&lt;a href=&quot;com.package.name://http://your_real_external_link_goes_here&quot;&gt;Privacy Policy&lt;/a&gt;</string>

In my activity with the webview, I say:

    Uri data = getIntent().getData();
    if (data != null) {
        url = data.toString().substring(19 , data.toString().length());
        Log.e("url", url);
    }

We substring out the part that says: com.package.name:// which in total is 19 character and you the remaining portion would be my url which I can then use to load my webpage without the url being displayed.

How to pass data between activity through Html hyperlink in Android TextView?

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