Pass a new string in TextView in new line - android

I'm sending a string from one Activity to another Activity with putExtras and getExtras.
Then I displaying this string to a TextView. When I go back and choose another string it ovewrites the previous string in TextView.
I want to place the new string in a new line in textView.
How to do this?
(I'm sending strings with a button)
This is my code in the recieve Activity:
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_completed_tasks);
TextView completedTasksView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.completed_tasks);
Intent intent = getIntent();
String completedTasks = intent.getExtras().getString("completedTasks");
completedTasksView.setText(completedTasks);
}
}

According to: TextView
append(CharSequence text)
Convenience method: Append the specified
text to the TextView's display buffer, upgrading it to
BufferType.EDITABLE if it was not already editable.
So use:
completedTasksView.append("\n" + completedTasks);

You have to store the string that you sent previously using putExtras because next time activity will be recreated again and your previous data will be lost. To save previous String you can create a static arraylist and on getIntent add your string to arraylist and when you want to print use a for loop and create a single string with appended "/n" and set that string to textview like this
For eg.
public static ArrayList<String> list;
To add string to list
list.add(completedTasks);
To create a single string from arraylist
String text="";
for(int i=0;i<list.size();i++)
{
if(text!="")
{
text=text+"\n"+list(i);
}else{
text=list(i);
}
}
textview.setText(text);
NOTE:
Arraylist should be static for app and not within activity so define arraylist in different class then activity

you can create One globle class with one String variable which will store your completedTask Text every time set text when you get new string ...

Create one global String and always append to it:
String completedTasks = "";
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_completed_tasks);
TextView completedTasksView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.completed_tasks);
Intent intent = getIntent();
completedTasks += "\n" + intent.getExtras().getString("completedTasks");
completedTasksView.setText(completedTasks);
}
}

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2. COURSE
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2. COURSE = "Intro to Computing"
All fine until here, but when i am retrieving these string on other activity, I am getting value "Intro to Computing" for both, here is code from that class.
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Anjum
You are using bad the intent.putExtra(),
You need to put a key (you need to know) as first param, to get the object in the other activity like:
...
String item = ...;
intent.putExtra("COURSE", item);
...
And you get the extras with:
...
intent.getStringExtra("COURSE");
...
Edited !!!
There's a couple of things here that should be mentioned.
QUIZ_TITLE and COURSE are both null (I can't see where they're set)
When you add something to the Extras Bundle, you're placing values in to a dictionary. The key for this dictionary you're using, in this case, is null. This means the second time you're putting in to the dictionary, QUIZ_TITLE (null) is being replaced with the key COURSE (null).
If you change QUIZ_TITLE and COURSE to an actual String value, it should sort that problem.
The second thing to note, is that there's a difference between getExtraString and getExtras.getString. I have written about this here
Hope that helps.
Please try this
Intent intent = getIntent();
String quizTitle = intent.getExtras().getString(Quizzes.QUIZ_TITLE);
String courseTitle = iintent.getExtras().getString(Quizzes.COURSE);
Update:
Oh now i see it too:
protected static final String QUIZ_TITLE = null;
protected static final String COURSE = null;
is really fatal because using a null value for a key is not useful and even if it is possible you are setting your value for the key 'null' first and overwrite it then by setting the value for key 'null' again.
Change it to:
protected static final String QUIZ_TITLE = "extra_quiz_title"
protected static final String COURSE = "extra_course";
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