Inline Activity Result

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Gradle Dependency

The library is hosted on jCenter.

dependencies {
  ...
  implementation 'com.afollestad:inline-activity-result:0.1.0'
}

What does it do?

WITH this library

You call startActivityForResult, providing an Activity to launch as the generic type. You receive the result in a callback without having to override onActivityResult. And, you don't have to worry about requestCode or resultCode.

class NewActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

  override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

    val extras = Bundle()
        .putString("some_extra", "Hello, World!")
    startActivityForResult<OtherActivity>(extras) { success, data ->
      if (success) {
        toast("Got successful result!")
      }
    }
  }
}

WithOUT this library

Well, the code speaks for itself.

class OldActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

  override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

    val intent = Intent(this, OtherActivity::class.java)
        .putExtra("some_extra", "Hello, World!")
    startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE)
  }

  override fun onActivityResult(
    requestCode: Int,
    resultCode: Int,
    data: Intent?
  ) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data)
    if (requestCode == REQUEST_CODE && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
      toast("Got successful result!")
    }
  }

  companion object {
    private const val REQUEST_CODE = 69
  }
}

What's the big deal?

You do not have to override onActivityResult at all. All of your results are received inline. This may not seem like a big deal with the sample above, but it gets more valuable as you start to have more than one result case to handle. And things are scoped to the callsite, which can be very nice in various scenarios.

Note that this can all be used from within a Fragment as well.

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Variants of startActivityForResult

There are multiple variants startActivityForResult you can use for different use cases. All of them allow you to pass an optional requestCode parameter, but this should generally be unnecessary.

Simple

The simplest you can get is just a generic type and the callback.

startActivityForResult<OtherActivity> { success, data ->
    // Do something
}

With Extras

You can provide a Bundle of extras to the destination Activity:

val extras = Bundle()
    .putString("some_extra", "Hello, World!")
startActivityForResult<OtherActivity>(extras) { success, data ->
    // Do something
}
    

Full Intent

And finally, you can use a full intent. In this variant you do not provide a generic parameter.

val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)
    .setData("content://some-uri".toUri())
startActivityForResult(intent) { success, data ->
  // Do something
}