I believe that would be correct. As far as I can tell, the only way to determine the difference is by checking the following: - Bundle is null - Bundle doesn't have the key you specified.
Again, I have not had the need to do this yet so I am only speculating. But this is what I understand from having read through the Dev Guide. Thanks, Justin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Anders Feder <[email protected]>wrote: > Aha. So I will do something like this in the BroadcastReceiver: > > myIntent.putExtra("x","y"); > myActivity.startActivity(myIntent); > > And then in myActivity.onCreate() do something like: > > DoSomething(myBundle.getBundleExtra("x")); > > Does that look about right? > > If so, how do I tell, in onCreate(), whether the Activity was started by > the user or by my BroadcastReceiver? > > Thanks a lot, > > Anders Feder > > 2009/10/5 Justin Anderson <[email protected]> > > Use Intent.putExtra() to add the data you want to pass to the activity you >> are starting. There are several different versions of putExtra depending on >> the data you want to pass. >> >> Then the activity you are starting can get that information from the >> bundle that is passed in via onCreate(). >> >> I have never actually done this, but I believe that is how it happens... >> If I am wrong, could somebody please correct me? >> >> Thanks, >> Justin >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> There are only 10 types of people in the world... >> Those who know binary and those who don't. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Anders Feder >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Thanks for your response, but could you please elaborate a bit? I don't >>> have the lingo that straight yet. What exactly should I do? Should I add >>> something in the AndroidManifest file? If so what, and where? Thanks again. >>> >>> Anders Feder >>> >>> 2009/10/5 <[email protected]> >>> >>> just add that extra bundle to intent & start new activity with this >>>> extra.in the activity just retrive the bundle you added to it. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Anders Feder <[email protected] >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm developing an application with android.telephony.gsm that is >>>>> supposed to process incoming SMS messages. >>>>> >>>>> I've figured out that I need to have a BroadcastReceiver for receiving >>>>> the incoming messages. But how am I supposed to pass the received >>>>> messages from the BroadcastReceiver and on to my Activity? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>> >>>>> Anders Feder >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
