Handling onActivityResult in Android app having more than one activity

Question

In my android app, I have a main activity which creates two other sub activites through intent. Now, both the sub activity return result to the main activity. In my main activity, how do I handle two "onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)" since it cant have two methods with same name in a given class. Hope my question is clear..

Thanks

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '11 at 19:36

You change the requestCode that you use when you call startActivityForResult.

EDIT: for example, I use this:

startActivityForResult(i, App.REQUEST_ENABLE_BT);

and this:

startActivityForResult(i, App.MANUAL_INPUT);

and then you filter the results like this:

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
{
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

        if(resultCode == RESULT_OK){
            switch(requestCode){
            case App.REQUEST_ENABLE_BT:
                if(resultCode != RESULT_OK){
                    Toast.makeText(this, getString(R.string.label_bluetooth_disabled), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
                break;
            case App.MANUAL_INPUT:
                break;
        }
}

This is a really bad design. In fact, the `Toast` is unreachable code, since you enter the switch only if `resultCode` is equal `RESULT_OK`. You should always use an outer (and single) `switch` for the `requestCode`, and inside every `case` check for the different `resultCodes`. Any other design for saving a couple of lines of code will eventually be a source of bugs. — thelawnmowerman, Oct 07 '15 at 08:00

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 31 '11 at 19:38

That's what the requestCode is for. So you'd have a setup like this

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
{
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    switch(requestCode)
        case ACTIVITY1:
           if(resultCode == RESULT_OK)
              Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Activity 1 returned OK", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
           break;
        case ACTIVITY2:
           if(resultCode == RESULT_OK)
              Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Activity 2 returned OK", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
           break;
}

Where ACTIVITY1 and ACTIVITY2 are constants in your Activity. You'd call them like so:

startActivityForResult(activity1Intent, ACTIVITY1);

and

startActivityForResult(activity2Intent, ACTIVITY2);

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 25 '12 at 13:19

It's possible to return any kind of data from a subactivity in the result intent parameter:

Sub-activity:

Intent intent = new Intent ();
intent.putExtra ("string_1", "hello");
intent.putExtra ("string_2", "world");
intent.putExtra ("int_1", 1000);
intent.putExtra ("long_1", 2000l);
activity.setResult (Activity.RESULT_OK, intent);

_

Parent activity:

@Override
protected void onActivityResult (int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent)
{
    if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK)
    {
        String string_1 = intent.getStringExtra ("string_1", "");
        String string_2 = intent.getStringExtra ("string_2", "");
        int int_1 = intent.getIntExtra ("int_1", 0);
        long long_1 = intent.getLongExtra ("long_1", 0);
    }
}

activity.setResult (Activity.RESULT_OK, intent); what is activity here parentActivity or object? — Suresh Maidaragi, Oct 25 '18 at 10:34
@SureshMaidaragi I don't think it's the parentActivity, because you don't have access to that in the child activity. So it must be the child activity itself. If you are in a subclass of Activity, you can probably replace **activity** with **this** . ( "this" is probably what you mean by object ) — gregn3, Oct 25 '18 at 21:51

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 10 '16 at 08:31

You can use swicth the requestcode for different result

public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
 {

      super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

       switch (requestCode) {

          case (1): 
          {
            // do this if request code is 1.
          }
          break;

          case (2):
          {
            // do this if request code is 2.
          }
          break;
  }

Handling onActivityResult in Android app having more than one activity

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