• How to deal with the starActivityForResult() deprecation

How to deal with the starActivityForResult() deprecation

• I was on the way to following this getting started documents of Android Studio.
• But I was stucked at this step of the documents because the startActivityForResult()is deprecated.
• I didn’t want to stop this clone coding at the last step of that course so I started to find a solution for this issue.
• This StackOverflow answer gives me an solution so I replaced the deprecated code.
  • the old deprecated way ( extracted from this link)

    
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    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
         
        ...
             
        public void launchSecondActivity(View view) {
            Log.d(LOG_TAG, "Button clicked!");
            Intent intent = new Intent(this, SecondActivity.class);
            String message = mMessageEditText.getText().toString();
            intent.putExtra(EXTRA_MESSAGE, message);
            startActivityForResult(intent, TEXT_REQUEST);
        }
             
        @Override
        public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    
            if (requestCode == TEXT_REQUEST) {
                if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
                    String reply = data.getStringExtra(SecondActivity.EXTRA_REPLY);
                    mReplyHeadTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                    mReplyTextView.setText(reply);
                    mReplyTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                }
            }
        }
    }
    
    

  • the new androidx way ( TEXT_REQUEST not used. delete it!)

    
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    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
      ...
          
      public void launchSecondActivity(View view) {
          Log.d(LOG_TAG, "Button clicked!");
          Intent intent = new Intent(this, SecondActivity.class);
          String message = mMessageEditText.getText().toString();
          intent.putExtra(EXTRA_MESSAGE, message);
          launchSomeActivity.launch(intent);
      }
    
      ActivityResultLauncher<Intent> launchSomeActivity = registerForActivityResult(
          new ActivityResultContracts.StartActivityForResult(),
          new ActivityResultCallback<ActivityResult>() {
              @Override
              public void onActivityResult(ActivityResult result) {
                  if (result.getResultCode() == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
                      String reply = result.getData().getStringExtra(SecondActivity.EXTRA_REPLY);
                      mReplyHeadTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                      mReplyTextView.setText(reply);
                      mReplyTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                  }
              }
          }
      );   
    }