Android Studio 4.2 Development Essentials - Java Edition

52. An Overview of Android Intents

By this stage of the book, it should be clear that Android applications are comprised, among other things, of one or more activities. An area that has yet to be covered in extensive detail, however, is the mechanism by which one activity can trigger the launch of another activity. As outlined briefly in the chapter entitled “The Anatomy of an Android Application”, this is achieved primarily by using Intents.

Prior to working through some Android Studio based example implementations of intents in the following chapters, the goal of this chapter is to provide an overview of intents in the form of explicit intents and implicit intents together with an introduction to intent filters.

52.1 An Overview of Intents ...