Answer 1

You should probably use a separate Activity for each screen; otherwise you need to end up keeping track of which individual View is currently being displayed, plus the state of all those not currently being displayed when the user switches to another window, or a call comes in etc.

It's easier to keep track of this state if you just use a separate Activity for each piece of functionality.

If you do decide to keep everything in a single Activity however, you could look at the TabActivity class. However, there are also caveats there that prevent you from having an Activity as the tab content.

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Regarding your follow-up, you unfortunately cannot attach an Intent directly to a Button like you can with a MenuItem via the XML, however you could just extend Activity to make your own common base class with some code that hooks up the listeners.

Something like:

public class BaseActivity extends Activity {
    protected View.OnClickListener mButtonListener;

    protected void setupHeaderButtons() {
        findViewById(R.id.header_btn_1).setOnClickListener(mButtonListener);
        // ...
        findViewById(R.id.header_btn_n).setOnClickListener(mButtonListener);
    }
}

public class FirstActivity extends BaseActivity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle b) {
        super.onCreate(b);
        setContentView(R.layout.first_activity);

        // This needs to be done *after* the View has been inflated
        setupHeaderButtons();
    }
}

Answered by: Chloe229 | Posted: 26-02-2022

Answer 2

I am also quite new to Android but my advice would be to create 4 different Activities. The reason for that is that it seems like a "cleaner" implementation to me. Sure, there is more code to be written but I'd rather have more small classes than one big class with lots of code in it.

Answered by: Brad732 | Posted: 26-02-2022

Answer 3

Not sure if this has been mentioned in any of the sub questions, but if you change activities pre-2.0 you cannot animate between them.

So if you have a loading screen and would like it to fade to a menu you have to use two views and switch between the two.

Answered by: Catherine436 | Posted: 26-02-2022

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