How to start new activity on button click

Question

In an Android application, how do you start a new activity (GUI) when a button in another activity is clicked, and how do you pass data between these two activities?

Answer 1

An old question but if the goal is to switch displayed pages, I just have one activity and call setContentView() when I want to switch pages (usually in response to user clicking on a button). This allows me to simply call from one page's contents to another. No Intent insanity of extras parcels bundles and whatever trying to pass data back and forth.

I make a bunch of pages in res/layout as usual but don't make an activity for each. Just use setContentView() to switch them as needed.

So my one-and-only onCreate() has:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    LayoutInflater layoutInflater = getLayoutInflater();

    final View mainPage = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_main, null);
    setContentView (mainPage);
    Button openMenuButton = findViewById(R.id.openMenuButton);

    final View menuPage = layoutInflatter.inflate(R.layout.menu_page, null);
    Button someMenuButton = menuPage.findViewById(R.id.someMenuButton);

    openMenuButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {
            setContentView(menuPage);
        }
    });

    someMenuButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {
            do-something-interesting;
            setContentView(mainPage);
        }
    }
}

If you want the Back button to go back through your internal pages before exiting the app, just wrap setContentView() to save pages in a little Stack of pages, and pop those pages in onBackPressed() handler.