Sams Teach Yourself: Android Application Development in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Hour 2. Understanding Intents

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Starting an activity by using intents

Using implicit intents

Handling an implicit intent

Hour 1, “Introducing Android,” provided an introduction to Intents. You learned that an Intent initiates an action, and can include additional data for that action. In this hour, you use an Intent to start a new Activity and you learn about some of the Intents that are built into Android that you ...