android: String value match another String value using operand == not working?

Question

Hopefully this is an easy fix, but for the moment is is boggling me (Actionscript programmer new to Java programming).

I have a string variable coming from getExtra

Answer 1

Strings are Objects, and to do correct Object equality comparisions, you need to use

dir.equals("content");

or better yet (to avoid possible null pointer exceptions)

"content".equals(dir);