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Denys ZelenchukAndroid Espresso Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4315-2_5

5. Verifying and Stubbing Intents with IntentMatchers

Denys Zelenchuk1 
(1)
Zürich, Switzerland
 
Throughout this chapter, we will discuss how to verify and stub application intents. An intent is a messaging object you can use to request an action from another app component. Intents facilitate communication between components in several ways. According to the Android Intent and Filters documentation ( https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-filters ), there are three fundamental use cases:
  • Starting an activity—An activity represents a single screen in the Android application. An activity instance can be launched by passing an intent ...

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