How to pass an "EditText" value between activities Android Application

Question

I'm tring to build an activity where I insert a search word in an EditText, and on a click of a button, app opens a different activity, and in that activity I need to execute a query using the value of the search word that was inserted in the previous activity.

How can I move this value from previous activity and use it in another different activity?

Thank you.

[duplicate?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2091465/how-do-i-pass-data-between-activities-in-android) — Droidekas, Nov 05 '15 at 09:57

Tushar Gogna · Answer 1 · 2015-01-07T18:00:10.497

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Intent is used for sending data from one activity to another. More About It.

Use this to "put" the string:

Intent i = new Intent(CurrentActivity.this, NextActivity.class);   
String searchItem= editText.getText().toString(); //Getting string from the editText, in your case the Search based EditText

i.putExtra("STRING_I_NEED", searchItem); // putExtra(KEY,VALUE) where KEY is used to fetch data in another activity and VALUE is the value you want to carry.

startActivity(i);

Then, to retrieve the value in your NextActivity, Do this in OnCreate:

Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
if (extras != null)
{
    String myParam = extras.getString("STRING_I_NEED");
}
else
{
    //..oops!
}

edited Jan 07 '15 at 18:00

answered Jan 07 '15 at 17:41

Tushar Gogna

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I would recommend rigging the key as a constant. For example: public static final String INTENT_PARAM_SEARCH_KEYWORD = "INTENT_PARAM_SEARCH_KEYWORD"; – Joe Plante Jan 07 '15 at 17:52
This is an example. I would rather break it down further if I have to make the answer clearer for the beginners. – Tushar Gogna Jan 07 '15 at 18:05
Sure; that's fair enough – Joe Plante Jan 07 '15 at 23:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '15 at 17:46

Moving to next activities:

1 pass whole string to next activity by using

 intent.putExtras("Key",string);

2 make a singleton class of getter setter , by using this class you can set and get values throughout application

3 save value in db and read it from it

How to pass an "EditText" value between activities Android Application

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