How to find Intent source in Android?

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Akh picture Akh · Jan 25, 2011 · Viewed 28.6k times · Source

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Android: How to get the sender of an Intent?

Is there a way in android to find the source activity which fires a INTENT (in the destination activity)?

The scenario is I have two activities A and B. Both fire an intent to call activity C. Activity C displays extra information based on its source. Eg. If call comes from A then C displays only 2 textviews whereas in the case of intent fired by B the activity C displays 3 textviews (basically more information based on who is the caller).

To establish this I need to know who fired the intent calling C. How do I do this?

Answer

Romain Guy picture Romain Guy · Jan 25, 2011

A better way to do this would be to use Intent extras to pass parameters to the receiver.

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