Intent and intent filters in Android/Using intent to start a new activity/Intent Example in android Ø Intents are asynchronous messages which allow Android components to request functionality from other components of the Android system Ø Eg: an Activity can send an Intents to the Android system which starts another Activity Ø Intents are instances of the android.content.Intent class. Ø An Intent can also contain data. This data can be used by the receiving component Ø Eg: application can calls via an Intent a browser component. As data is it may send the URL to the browser component. Ø Intent Flters registers Activities, Services, Broadcast Receiver (as being capable of performing an action on a set of data) Ø Two types of Intents: Implicit Intents and Explicit Intent Ø Explicit Intents- component which should be called by the Android system, b...
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