Skip start of Activity if a condition has already been met

Question

In my Android app i have a Google plus login activity with the method

@Override
public void onConnected(Bundle connectionHint) {
    String accountName = mPl         


        

Answer 1

Following @MysticMaggic's answer, i finally got it to work.For future reference, this is what i did:

In the onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) method of my UserDetailsCaptureActivity.java class (where i want to save the sharedPreferences) i did

SharedPreferences userDetailsPrefEditor = getApplicationContext().getSharedPreferences("MyPref", MODE_PRIVATE); 
    final Editor editor = userDetailsPrefEditor.edit();


    final Intent userProfileDisplayIntent = new Intent(this, UserProfileActivity.class);

    submitButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            if(v.getId() == R.id.userDetailsCaptureButton) {
                new EndpointsTask().execute(getApplicationContext());
                editor.putBoolean("hasSetDetails", true);
                editor.commit();
                startActivity(userProfileDisplayIntent);

            }
            }
        });

and then in the onConnected() method of my LoginActivity (where i want to access the sharedPreferences and check if the user has already entered their details) i did this

@Override
public void onConnected(Bundle connectionHint) {
    ...
    SharedPreferences userDetailsPrefEditor = getApplicationContext().getSharedPreferences("MyPref", MODE_PRIVATE); 
    boolean hasSetDetails = userDetailsPrefEditor.getBoolean("hasSetDetails", false);
    ...

  if (hasSetDetails == true) { //If user has already entered their details show profile page, else show user details capture screen.
       Intent userProfileDisplayIntent = new Intent(this, UserProfileActivity.class);
       startActivity(userProfileDisplayIntent);
   } else {
       Intent userDetailsCaptureIntent = new Intent(this, UserDetailsCaptureActivity.class);
       startActivity(userDetailsCaptureIntent);
    }
}

That's all.

Answer 2

Save these user data in SharedPreference when user fills up them in UserDetailsCaptureActivity.java.

userDetailsPrefEditor.putString("user_name", userName).commit();

Then after each successsful login, you need to check if the data already exists in SharedPreference or not.

userName = userDetailsPrefEditor.getString("user_name", "default");

if (userName == "default")
{
    //start activity for capturing details
}
else
{
    //do something else
}

Hope this helps.