What we’ll cover:
Intent overview
Explicit and implicit Intents
Passing data between activities
Returning results from Intents
Android’s architecture is quite unique in the way it builds application. It has this notion of components instead of just plain objects. And the way that Android makes these components interact is something that can only be found in the Android platform. Android uses Intents as a way for its components to communicate—it uses it to pass messages across components. In this chapter, we’ll look at Intents: what they are and how we use them.
