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

The Most simple way to open activity on button click is:

1. Create two activities under the res folder, add a button to the first activity and give a name to onclick function.
2. There should be two java files for each activity.
3. Below is the code:

MainActivity.java

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.content.Intent;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    public void goToAnotherActivity(View view) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, SecondActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

SecondActivity.java

package com.example.myapplication;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class SecondActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity1);
    }
}

AndroidManifest.xml(Just add this block of code to the existing)