Returning to activity after onActivityResult?

Question

So, here's the scenario. There is one EditText which has its own TextWatcher set, used for setting the word count.

I also have a Navigation Drawer, Sliding, and in that have an option which launches a new Activity for result.

The result I want is the Target number of words the user wants to achieve, and then get the result from the user input and calculate the perecentage of target recived and set it to the text of a TextView in the Main Activity.

Now, the problem is :

Navigation Drawer has it's own ItemClickListener, and it exists as an independent View in the Activity. (Hidden, mostly, that is.)

And the Main Activity is different view.

How can I implement a correct OnActivityResultMethod so that I can return to the Activity's oncreate Method, techinically speaking, to the TextWatcher so that the calculation can be made and percentage be set.

Because the OnActivityResult is called automatically, so I cannot do anything to override it.

It has the data the app needs, but it is not called progmatically, so it cannot return values.

Answer 1

You can try this:

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)        
    Intent i = getIntent();
    i.putExtras(data.getExtras()); // pass result data to onCreate()
    startActivity(i);
    finish();
}

Restarting the Activity is the only way to get back to onCreate().

EDIT:

Now, in your onCreate(), make a check:

Intent i = getIntent();
Bundle args = i.getExtras();
if(args != null){

    ....

}

and handle the data in the EditText here.