Update views in one Activity from another

Question

I am trying to emulate a software keyboard using an Activity with Theme.Dialog. The keyboard activity covers only part of the screen. The underlying activity is still active a

Answer 1

It will not work.. your Activity will be in paused state.. you try to invoke something there it sure will throw an Exception.. don't try it.. try onActivityResult() instead...

:Edited

well then try this..

get the Activity instance (i mean the activity which has edit text) then

if(!yourActviity.isFinishing())
{

((EditText)yourActviity.findViewById(R.id.editText)).setText("text");
}