android - How do I properly pass EditText (in 1st activity that creates a TextView in 2nd activity) to a third activity as TextView? -

i have login button when pressed sends user activity , post users name in textview. part working fine. trouble when try pass username in second activity textview on third activity textview doesn't show up. android:hint shows text know xml fine. i've tried every kind of "putextra" intent find on site. think missed something..help. i'm totally new android laugh @ newbie :)

activity 2

  public class dashboardactivity extends activity { userfunctions userfunctions; button btnlogout; button scanbutton; button userinfo; button help; button receipt; textview showmsg;    @override public void oncreate(bundle savedinstancestate) {     super.oncreate(savedinstancestate);      /**      * dashboard screen application      * */             // check login status in database     userfunctions = new userfunctions();     if(userfunctions.isuserloggedin(getapplicationcontext())){         setcontentview(r.layout.dashboard);            scanbutton = (button) findviewbyid(r.id.scanbutton);         btnlogout = (button) findviewbyid(r.id.btnlogout);         userinfo =  (button) findviewbyid(r.id.userinfo);         =  (button) findviewbyid(r.id.help);         receipt = (button)findviewbyid(r.id.receipt);         showmsg = (textview)findviewbyid(r.id.showmsg);          intent in = getintent();         if (in.getcharsequenceextra("usr") != null) {             final textview setmsg = (textview)findviewbyid(r.id.showmsg);             setmsg.settext("user: "+in.getcharsequenceextra("usr"));                         }             btnlogout.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {              public void onclick(view arg0) {                 // todo auto-generated method stub                 userfunctions.logoutuser(getapplicationcontext());                 intent login = new intent(getapplicationcontext(), loginactivity.class);                 login.addflags(intent.flag_activity_clear_top);                 startactivity(login);                 // closing dashboard screen                 finish();             }         });           // link cc         scanbutton.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {              public void onclick(view view) {                 intent = new intent(getapplicationcontext(),                         myscanactivity.class);                 startactivity(i);                 finish();             }         });          // create customer receipt         receipt.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {              public void onclick(view view) {                 intent intent = new intent(dashboardactivity.this, receiptactivity.class));                 intent.putextra("textview",showmsg);                 startactivity(intent);                 finish();             }         });          // link user info         userinfo.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {              public void onclick(view view) {                 intent = new intent(getapplicationcontext(),                         userinfoactivity.class);                 startactivity(i);                 finish();             }         });          // link info         help.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {              public void onclick(view view) {                 intent = new intent(getapplicationcontext(),                         helpactivity.class);                 startactivity(i);                 finish();             }         });        }else{         // user not logged in show login screen         intent login = new intent(getapplicationcontext(), loginactivity.class);         login.addflags(intent.flag_activity_clear_top);         startactivity(login);         // closing dashboard screen         finish();     }     } 

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@smulianjulian:

there mistake. re passing component textview next intent, while should passing it's text only.

you doing :

intent.putextra("textview",showmsg); 

but should

bundle extras = myintent.getextras();  extras .putstring("textview",showmsg.gettext().tostring()); 

and in 3rd activity should value :

bundle = getintent().getextras(); bundle.getstring("textview"); 

and set value textview.

textview yourtv = ((textview) findviewbyid(r.id.your_textview_id)); yourtv.settext(bundle.getstring("textview")); 

hope helps.