Passing MainActivity's data via adapter

Question

I'm new to android and java but in my very first app I'm kinda doing play store, the first thing you see on play store and then go to the second activity and see that whole list there. I've built the horizontal ArrayList and i succeeded to build GridView of second activity as well, my ArrayList is static i mean it's not using any server.

My problem is how can i send MainActivity's data via the adapter which is situated on it to MainActivity2.

Here is my Main Activity which my data is situated there:

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

private ArrayList<SectionDataModel> allSampleData;


@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    allSampleData = new ArrayList<>();


    RecyclerView recyclerView = findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view1);
    recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
    RecyclerViewDataAdapter adapter = new RecyclerViewDataAdapter(allSampleData, this);
    recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this, LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL, false));
    recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);


    EssentialData();



}

public void EssentialData() {
    SectionDataModel Unit1 = new SectionDataModel();
    Unit1.setHeaderTitle("Unit 1");


    ArrayList<SingleItemModel> singleItemModels = new ArrayList<>();

    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("Word ", "Pronunciation", "Example", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.soft));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));
    singleItemModels.add(new SingleItemModel("The Apple", "Apple Store Is Open", "Description book", R.drawable.alferet));


    Unit1.setAllItemInSection(singleItemModels);
    allSampleData.add(Unit1);


}
  }

And my SectionDataAdapter which only from it i can send Data to Second MainActivity because if i do it from MainActivity itself it returned Null :

public class SectionDataAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<SectionDataAdapter.SingleItemRowHolder>{

private final Context mContext;

private ArrayList<SingleItemModel> itemModels;


//the constructor
public SectionDataAdapter(ArrayList<SingleItemModel> itemModels, Context mContext) {
    this.itemModels = itemModels;
    this.mContext = mContext;
}


@NonNull
@Override
public SingleItemRowHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
    View view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.list_single_card, null);
    SingleItemRowHolder singleItemRowHolder = new SingleItemRowHolder(view);
    return singleItemRowHolder;
}




@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull SingleItemRowHolder holder, int position) {
    SingleItemModel itemModel = itemModels.get(position);
    holder.tvTitle.setText(itemModel.getWord());
    holder.mitemImage.setImageResource(itemModel.getImage());
}


@Override
public int getItemCount() {return (null != itemModels ? itemModels.size() : 0);}

public class SingleItemRowHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    protected TextView tvTitle;
    protected ImageView mitemImage;



    public SingleItemRowHolder(final View itemView) {

        super(itemView);
        //Intent to start next activity
        final Intent intent = new Intent(mContext, ActivityDialogTheme.class);
        final Intent intent1 = new Intent(mContext, MainActivity2.class);

        final Activity activity = (Activity) mContext;

        this.mitemImage = itemView.findViewById(R.id.itemImage);
        this.tvTitle = itemView.findViewById(R.id.tvTitle);


        itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){


            @Override
            public void onClick(View v){
                Toast.makeText(v.getContext(), tvTitle.getText(), LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                //passing data to Tab1Fragment

                mContext.startActivity(intent1);
            }
        });
        itemView.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
                Toast.makeText(mContext,tvTitle.getText(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                mContext.startActivity(intent);

                //appearing animation
                activity.overridePendingTransition(R.anim.bottom_in, R.anim.fade_in_right);
                return true;
            }
        });
        }
    }
}

And how to receive it? Somebody help me.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '18 at 01:38

Your SectionDataModel need to implement Parceble interface. Like below you can implement -

public class Person implements Parcelable{
String name;
int age;
String sex;

public Person(String name, int age, String sex) {
    this.name = name;
    this.age = age;
    this.sex = sex;
} 
 public static final Creator<Person> CREATOR = new Creator<Person>() {
    @Override
    public Person createFromParcel(Parcel in) {
        return new BeanClass(in);
    }

    @Override
    public Person[] newArray(int size) {
        return new Person[size];
    }
};
@Override
public int describeContents() {
    return 0;
}

@Override
public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags) {
    dest.writeString(name);
    dest.writeInt(age);
    dest.writeString(sex);
}
}

Passing data to fragment or activity from your adapter class -

@Override
    public void onClick(View v){
        Toast.makeText(v.getContext(), tvTitle.getText(), LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        //passing data to Tab1Fragment
        Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
        bundle.putParcelableArrayList("SectionDataModels", sectionDataModelList);
        intent1.putExtras(bundle);
        mContext.startActivity(intent1);
    }

Receiving SectionDataModelList in the activity -

ArrayList<SectionDataModel> listFromActivity =new ArrayList<>();

listFromActivity=this.getIntent().getExtras().getParcelableArrayList("SectionDataModels");

    if (listFromActivity1 != null) {

        Log.d("listis",""+listFromActivity1.toString());
    }

Also, you can try to receive intent data with this way - If you need

Bundle bundle = getActivity().getIntent().getExtras();
model = bundle.getParcelable("SectionDataModels");

OR

Bundle bundle = this.getArguments();
if (bundle != null) {
    model = bundle.getParcelable("SectionDataModels");
}

i didnot ask my question completely. MainActivity2 is hosting 3 Tabs, in one of them i need to receive it too, because i declared all tabs Fragment and every tab's Fragment's function is like `MainActivity` 's adapter (SectionDataAdapter) that it is going to show ArrayLists' Items. Which means i have to receive the ArrayList of MainActivity in all Fragments as well. how can i do that ? — Sayyed Mahdi Hussaini, Oct 23 '18 at 17:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '18 at 19:42

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You can make the ArrayList public static and then import it in the second activity

answered Oct 22 '18 at 19:42

Dev Sharma

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i can't i highly was suggested not to do so. It makes trouble for Memory – Sayyed Mahdi Hussaini Oct 23 '18 at 16:28
Can you please elaborate. I want to know about it @SayyedMahdiHussaini – Dev Sharma Oct 26 '18 at 14:46
here is my real and main problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52954833/pass-mainactivitys-to-hosting-classesmainactivity2-fragment – Sayyed Mahdi Hussaini Nov 02 '18 at 19:07

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 22 '18 at 19:31

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You can keep the arraylist in your application class instead of first activity (as it would be same throughout the app), then simply pass the clicked item's position from activty1 to activity2 using intent1.putExtra("position",position).

In activity 2 get the position using

int position = getIntent().getIntExtra("position")

Now simply get the model class object from the application class arraylist using this position.

answered Oct 22 '18 at 19:31

Naimish Srivastava

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can you be more specific ? i really need to send them based on my ArrayLists' position – Sayyed Mahdi Hussaini Oct 23 '18 at 16:30

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 22 '18 at 20:22

it all depends on the size of the list.

you could also create a parcelable class with and arraylist, and send it to your second activity.

[1] Android Class Parcelable with ArrayList

[2] Android: How to pass Parcelable object to intent and use getParcelable method of bundle?

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 23 '18 at 00:12

To make it easier, you can convert it to a json string format and then convert it back again to the list of model object you set and pass it as a bundle string in intent, you can used GSON library to have an easy parse for both json format and object model.

Passing MainActivity's data via adapter

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