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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) Intents and Multiple Activities Starting a New Activity

Ali Alrubayee
Ali Alrubayee
556 Points

I'm following the steps exactly as shown in the video of starting a new activity but it continues to come up with an err

the error says The first parameter for the Intent constructor must be the current context (you can use 'LaunchActivity.this'). i have no idea what this means.

LaunchActivity.java
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

public class LaunchActivity extends Activity {

  public Button mLaunchButton;

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

    mLaunchButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.launchButton);
    mLaunchButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
      @Override
      public void onClick(View v) {
        // Add your code in here!
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, FlightActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
      }
    });
  }
}

1 Answer

It means instead of

Intent intent = new Intent(this, FlightActivity.class);

try

Intent intent = new Intent(LauncherActivity.this, FlightActivity.class);