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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) Intents and Multiple Activities Getting Data from an Intent

Posted by Jhaycea Parayno
Jhaycea Parayno
1,350 Points

getting data from Intent

I cant really understand what his trying to say here can someone explain me.

FlightActivity.java 
import android.os.Bundle;

public class FlightActivity extends Activity {

  public int mFuelLevel = 0;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_flight);

    // Add your code below!
    Intent intent = getIntent();
    String mFuelLevel = intent.StringExtra("FUEL_LEVEL");
  }
}

2 Answers

raajiabraham
raajiabraham
2,609 Points
raajiabraham
raajiabraham
2,609 Points

import android.os.Bundle;

public class FlightActivity extends Activity {

public int mFuelLevel = 0;

@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_flight);

// Add your code below!
Intent intent = getIntent();
mFuelLevel = intent.getIntExtra("FUEL_LEVEL",-1);

} } //mFuelLevel was already declared as integer.

Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points
Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points

Hi Jhaycea,

For the first challenge, all you need to do is declare and initialize your Intent. Thus, you can remove the following line of code from your answer for the first challenge:

    String mFuelLevel = intent.StringExtra("FUEL_LEVEL");

For the second challenge, you're asked to include a default value of -1 (in this example, "FUEL_LEVEL" is the key, while -1 is the value), which is an integer. Keeping ints in mind for both the data type of the member variable and the method needed for the intent activity:

    int mFuelLevel = intent.getIntExtra("FUEL_LEVEL", -1);

Hope this helps!