Returning a result from an activity
Being able to start one activity from another is all well and good, but we will often need to know how the called activity has fared in its task or even which activity has been called. The startActivityForResult() method provides the solution.
Getting ready
Returning a result from an activity is not very different from the way we just called the activity in the previous recipes. You can either use the project from the previous recipe, or start a new project and call it GettingResults. Either way, once you have a project with two activities and the code needed to call the second activity, you're ready to begin.
How to do it...
There are only a few changes needed to get the results:
- First of all, open
MainActivity.java ...
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