I am having some trouble getting the data from my edit text into an share intent extra.For some reason , it is returning an empty string even when the EditText field has been filled. I Know there are several similar threads about people having trouble getting data out of an edit text field but I cant seem to adapt those answers to my code.
I have attached the relevant bits of code .Do let me know if you need to see any more of the code.(the bits of code I am having trouble with is in the private Intent createShareIntent().It is the third method in the attached code below)
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
mDbHelper = new NotesDbAdapter(this);
mDbHelper.open();
setContentView(R.layout.note_edit);//Set the layout file
setTitle(R.string.edit_note);//Set the title to be displayed in the action bar
mTitleText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.title);
mBodyText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.body);
//get the row id of the note in the database form the intent .
mRowId = (savedInstanceState == null) ? null :
(Long) savedInstanceState.getSerializable(NotesDbAdapter.KEY_ROWID);
if (mRowId == null) {
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
mRowId = extras != null ? extras.getLong(NotesDbAdapter.KEY_ROWID)
: null;
}
populateFields();
}
//THis method is used to create the menu in the Action bar
@Override//This works perfectly fine
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);//inflating the menu layout
MenuItem actionItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_share);//The share button in handled here
//The share action provider
ShareActionProvider actionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) actionItem.getActionProvider();
actionProvider.setShareHistoryFileName(null);
actionProvider.setShareIntent(createShareIntent());//creating a share intent
return true;//return true if the menu creation has been successful
}
//Handles the share intent
private Intent createShareIntent() {//this is where the trouble is
saveState();
String body = mBodyText.getText().toString();//this returnes an empty string
String title = mTitleText.getText().toString();// this returnes an empty string
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);//Setting the action to ACTION_SEND
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");//setting the text type to plain text
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,body);//this sends an empty string
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,title);//this sends an empty string
return shareIntent;
}
My questions are: 1. Why am I getting an empty string from the edittext even when it is filled? 2.How do I fix it ?
Thanks for taking the time to read this and for any help that you can give.