NavUtils

Added in 1.1.0

class NavUtils


NavUtils provides helper functionality for applications implementing recommended Android UI navigation patterns. For information about recommended navigation patterns see Tasks and Back Stack from the developer guide and Navigation from the design guide.

Summary

Constants

const String!
PARENT_ACTIVITY = "android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"

Public functions

java-static Intent?

Obtain an Intent that will launch an explicit target activity specified by sourceActivity's PARENT_ACTIVITY element in the application's manifest.

java-static Intent?
getParentActivityIntent(context: Context, componentName: ComponentName)

Obtain an Intent that will launch an explicit target activity specified by sourceActivityClass's PARENT_ACTIVITY element in the application's manifest.

java-static Intent?
getParentActivityIntent(
    context: Context,
    sourceActivityClass: Class<Any!>
)

Obtain an Intent that will launch an explicit target activity specified by sourceActivityClass's PARENT_ACTIVITY element in the application's manifest.

java-static String?

Return the fully qualified class name of sourceActivity's parent activity as specified by a PARENT_ACTIVITY element within the activity element in the application's manifest.

java-static String?
getParentActivityName(context: Context, componentName: ComponentName)

Return the fully qualified class name of a source activity's parent activity as specified by a PARENT_ACTIVITY element within the activity element in the application's manifest.

java-static Unit

Convenience method that is equivalent to calling navigateUpTo(sourceActivity, getParentActivityIntent (sourceActivity)). sourceActivity will be finished by this call.

java-static Unit
navigateUpTo(sourceActivity: Activity, upIntent: Intent)

Navigate from sourceActivity to the activity specified by upIntent, finishing sourceActivity in the process. upIntent will have the flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP set by this method, along with any others required for proper up navigation as outlined in the Android Design Guide.

java-static Boolean
shouldUpRecreateTask(sourceActivity: Activity, targetIntent: Intent)

Returns true if sourceActivity should recreate the task when navigating 'up' by using targetIntent.

Constants

PARENT_ACTIVITY

Added in 1.1.0
const val PARENT_ACTIVITY = "android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY": String!

Public functions

getParentActivityIntent

Added in 1.1.0
java-static fun getParentActivityIntent(sourceActivity: Activity): Intent?

Obtain an Intent that will launch an explicit target activity specified by sourceActivity's PARENT_ACTIVITY element in the application's manifest. If the device is running Jellybean or newer, the android:parentActivityName attribute will be preferred if it is present.

Parameters
sourceActivity: Activity

Activity to fetch a parent intent for

Returns
Intent?

a new Intent targeting the defined parent activity of sourceActivity

getParentActivityIntent

Added in 1.1.0
java-static fun getParentActivityIntent(context: Context, componentName: ComponentName): Intent?

Obtain an Intent that will launch an explicit target activity specified by sourceActivityClass's PARENT_ACTIVITY element in the application's manifest.

Parameters
context: Context

Context for looking up the activity component for the source activity

componentName: ComponentName

ComponentName for the source Activity

Returns
Intent?

a new Intent targeting the defined parent activity of sourceActivity

Throws
android.content.pm.PackageManager.NameNotFoundException

if the ComponentName for sourceActivityClass is invalid

getParentActivityIntent

Added in 1.1.0
java-static fun getParentActivityIntent(
    context: Context,
    sourceActivityClass: Class<Any!>
): Intent?

Obtain an Intent that will launch an explicit target activity specified by sourceActivityClass's PARENT_ACTIVITY element in the application's manifest.

Parameters
context: Context

Context for looking up the activity component for sourceActivityClass

sourceActivityClass: Class<Any!>

java.lang.Class object for an Activity class

Returns
Intent?

a new Intent targeting the defined parent activity of sourceActivity

Throws
android.content.pm.PackageManager.NameNotFoundException

if the ComponentName for sourceActivityClass is invalid

getParentActivityName

Added in 1.1.0
java-static fun getParentActivityName(sourceActivity: Activity): String?

Return the fully qualified class name of sourceActivity's parent activity as specified by a PARENT_ACTIVITY element within the activity element in the application's manifest.

Parameters
sourceActivity: Activity

Activity to fetch a parent class name for

Returns
String?

The fully qualified class name of sourceActivity's parent activity or null if it was not specified

getParentActivityName

Added in 1.1.0
java-static fun getParentActivityName(context: Context, componentName: ComponentName): String?

Return the fully qualified class name of a source activity's parent activity as specified by a PARENT_ACTIVITY element within the activity element in the application's manifest. The source activity is provided by componentName.

Parameters
context: Context

Context for looking up the activity component for the source activity

componentName: ComponentName

ComponentName for the source Activity

Returns
String?

The fully qualified class name of sourceActivity's parent activity or null if it was not specified

Added in 1.1.0
java-static fun navigateUpFromSameTask(sourceActivity: Activity): Unit

Convenience method that is equivalent to calling navigateUpTo(sourceActivity, getParentActivityIntent (sourceActivity)). sourceActivity will be finished by this call.

Note: This method should only be used when sourceActivity and the corresponding parent are within the same task. If up navigation should cross tasks in some cases, see shouldUpRecreateTask.

Parameters
sourceActivity: Activity

The current activity from which the user is attempting to navigate up

Added in 1.1.0
java-static fun navigateUpTo(sourceActivity: Activity, upIntent: Intent): Unit

Navigate from sourceActivity to the activity specified by upIntent, finishing sourceActivity in the process. upIntent will have the flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP set by this method, along with any others required for proper up navigation as outlined in the Android Design Guide.

This method should be used when performing up navigation from within the same task as the destination. If up navigation should cross tasks in some cases, see shouldUpRecreateTask.

Parameters
sourceActivity: Activity

The current activity from which the user is attempting to navigate up

upIntent: Intent

An intent representing the target destination for up navigation

shouldUpRecreateTask

Added in 1.1.0
java-static fun shouldUpRecreateTask(sourceActivity: Activity, targetIntent: Intent): Boolean

Returns true if sourceActivity should recreate the task when navigating 'up' by using targetIntent.

If this method returns false the app can trivially call navigateUpTo using the same parameters to correctly perform up navigation. If this method returns true, the app should synthesize a new task stack by using TaskStackBuilder or another similar mechanism to perform up navigation.

Parameters
sourceActivity: Activity

The current activity from which the user is attempting to navigate up

targetIntent: Intent

An intent representing the target destination for up navigation

Returns
Boolean

true if navigating up should recreate a new task stack, false if the same task should be used for the destination