Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

Getting ready

The primary and mandatory pieces of information in an intent are:

• action: This is the general action to be performed, such as ACTION_VIEW, ACTION_EDIT, ACTION_MAIN, and so on
• data: This is the data to operate on, such as a person's record in a contacts database, expressed as a URI

There are two kinds of intent:

• Explicit intent: The app defines the target component directly in the intent
• Implicit intent: The app asks the Android system to evaluate registered components based on the intent data and other optional information

Using Java and the Android SDK, you can send an implicit intent with the following code:

Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.danielespinetti.it"));startActivity(myIntent); ...