Create New Window in Android

Jan 24, 2010 Android

You can jump to a new window by changing the content view.

Code

setContentView(R.layout.second);

But the type of Activity between two views must be same. In my case, I need to switch to a List view(Activity) from a normal window. I can't do by switching content views. The only way to do that is start a sub-activity, just like the following:

Code

Intent intent = new Intent((Context)this, NewWindow.class);
startActivityForResult(intent, 0);

Yes, then it will jump to a new window, after the action completes, my code will call "finish();" from the sub-activity. Then it will jump back to the main window.

Tags: android, howto