60.7 Extracting Intent Data

Now that SecondActivity is being launched from MainActivity, the next step is to extract the String data value included in the intent and assign it to the TextView object in the SecondActivity user interface. This involves adding some code to the onCreate() method of SecondActivity in the SecondActivity.kt source file in addition to adapting the activity to use view binding:

package com.ebookfrenzy.explicitintent

 

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity

import android.os.Bundle

import android.view.View

import android.content.Intent

 

import com.ebookfrenzy.explicitintent.databinding.ActivitySecondBinding

 

class SecondActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

 

    private lateinit var binding: ActivitySecondBinding

 

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState...