Resume old activity by passing new data in bundle

Question

I have couple of activities say A , B, C. Activity A starts B , B starts C and so on. In my app I have put a navigation drawer which allows users to go back to activity A. When user goes back to activity A I have passed some flags which don't actually restart the activity but just resumes it.

intent = new Intent(activity, A.class);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP
        | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);

Now I m trying to pass some data using bundles.

    bundle.putInt("selectedTab", FEATURED_COUPONS);
    intent.putExtras(bundle);

But in my activity A the bundle is always null.

if(bundle != null)
{
    if(bundle.containsKey("selectedTab"))
    {
        int tab = bundle.getInt("selectedTab");
    }
}

Answer 1

You're going about things in the wrong way.

If all you want to do is put an Integer extra into the Intent extras then don't do this...

bundle.putInt("selectedTab", FEATURED_COUPONS);
intent.putExtras(bundle);

From the docs for putExtras(Bundle extras)...

Add a set of extended data to the intent. The keys must include a package prefix, for example the app com.android.contacts would use names like "com.android.contacts.ShowAll".

Instead just use...

intent.putExtra("selectedTab", FEATURED_COUPONS);

This isn't the real cause of your problem however. As Sumit Uppal mentions, you should implement onNewIntent(Intent intent) in Activity A. You can then use that to set the 'current' Intent to be the new Intent...

@Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
    if (intent != null)
        setIntent(intent);
}

Then in onResume() you can use...

Intent intent = getIntent();

...and then get the Bundle from that Intent.

Answer 2

I think you should do " if(bundle != null)" task in onNewIntent(Intent) method