Android Application Development Cookbook: 93 Recipes for Building Winning Apps

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Linking.zip
Unless you are writing a Hello World application, chances are good that your application con-
tains several activities that you need to connect in order to form a cohesive application. This 
recipe shows you the various ways to link to another activity in your Android application. 
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solution
Suppose you have two activities in your application. The following 
AndroidManifest.xml
file 
shows the two activities classes, 
MainActivity
and 
Activity2
:
package="net.learn2develop.linking"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
android:minSdkVersion="8"
android:targetSdkVersion="15" />
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >






android:name=".Activity2"
android:label="@string/app_name" >





 


Assuming you are currently in the 
MainActivity
activity, to link to 
Activity2
you can use the fol-
lowing code snippet:
package net.learn2develop.linking;
import android.app.Activity;