October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
15h 17m
English
Content preview from Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition
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Starting a new activity with an intent object
The Android application model can be seen as a service-oriented one, with activities as components and intents as the messages sent between them. Here, an intent is used to start an activity that displays the user's call log, but intents can be used to do many things and we will encounter them throughout this book.