Android - Intents

Intents are asynchronous messages which allow application components to request functionality from other Android components.

Intents allow you to interact with  components from the own and other  applications. For example an activity can start an external activity for taking a picture.

• # Start the activity connect to the
• # specified class

• Intent i = new Intent(this, ActivityTwo.class);
• startActivity(i);

Yes using startService(Intent) method.

• 1. Signal
• 2. Event
• 3. Occurred

Implicit intents do not name a target (the field for the component name is blank).

Implicit intents specify the action which should be performed and optionally data which provides data for the action.

For example the following tells the Android system to view a webpage.

• Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.vogella.com"));
• startActivity(i);

Implicit intents are often used to activate components in other applications.

Explicit intents explicitly defines the component which should be called by the Android system, by using the Java class as identifier.

• The following shows how to create an explicit intents and send it to the Android system.
• Intent i = new Intent(this, ActivityTwo.class);
• i.putExtra("Value1", "This value one for ActivityTwo ");
• i.putExtra("Value2", "This value two ActivityTwo");

explicit intents are typically used for application-internal messages — such as an activity starting a subordinate service or launching a sister activity.