Launch Second Screen
Explore how to implement screen navigation in an Android app with Kotlin. Learn to simulate a login delay using Handler, create an Intent to launch a new activity, and close the previous one to manage the app's back stack effectively.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Flow overview
When a user clicks the login button we will perform a data validation flow, and if the data is valid, proceed to:
- Simulate long-running operation for 2 seconds
- Open MainActivity
- Finish LoginActivity
Simulate a long-running operation
In this lesson, we are not going to do a real login HTTP call, so let’s just simulate it via delay of 2 seconds before opening MainActivity. In a real application, we would need to ...