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gabriel wambua
5,061 PointsHow do we know which intent an activity will get from another activity?
My question is simple.
I can see that once you pass data through an intent from one activity to the next that you can use getIntent(); to retrieve the data in the next intent. What I dont get is what do you do if you have more that one activity sending data through intents to a particular activity. How do you distinguish between the different intents?
For example MainActivity(assuming this is the first activity) uses an intent fromMaintoActivity2 with a putExtra that carries a name string. Then another activity e.g. ProfileActivity with an intent fromProfiletoActivity2 uses putExtra to send a gender string.
When retrieving the information in Activity2 how do we distinguish the data from the two activities?
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Yusuf Mohamed
2,631 PointsWell as you may know from working with intents when you send an intent with putExtra you also determine a key. I would then guess that from that key android studio can determine which intent to use.