Learn Android Studio 4: Efficient Java-Based Android Apps Development

© Ted Hagos 2020

T. HagosLearn Android Studio 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5937-5_8

8. Intents

Ted Hagos¹ 

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Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

 

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 ...