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Android Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition
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Android Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

by Rick Boyer, Kyle Mew
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
9h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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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.

Getting ready

To keep things simple, we are going to use an intent object to start one of Android's built-in applications rather than create a new one. This only requires a very basic application, so start a new Android project with Android Studio and call it ActivityStarter.

How to do it...

Again, to keep the example simple so that we can focus on the task at hand, we will create a function ...

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