What we’ll cover:
Intent overview
Explicit and implicit Intents
Passing data between activities
Returning results from Intents
Android’s architecture is unique in the way it builds applications. It has this notion of components instead of just plain objects. And the way that Android makes these components interact is something that you can only find 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.
What Intents Are
An Intent is an abstract ...
