Intent And Intent Filter In Android - Day Eight

Khawar Islam
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Introduction

In this article we will learn how to share an application or anything with social networks, websites, etc. This article is very important if you want to share anything with anyone by using Intent and Intent Filter in Android. This is part eight of the article series.

Before moving further, just read the following articles from day one to day seven,

What Is Intent

Intent is basically the message which is passed between components like activities, content provider, etc. Intent is generally used to invoke the activity, broadcast receiver, etc.

Intents and its use-cases

To start an activity
To start a service
To deliver a broadcast

The primary information contained in an Intent is the following:

Component name
Action
Data
Category
Extras
Flags

Intent Types

IMPLICIT INTENTS

In this intent, it doesn’t specify the component, which means you can set the URL or any method which is invoked when you click on button; the button method is called and implicit intent invoked.

IMPLEMENTATION

We declare the explicit intent on button onclick method and set the URL it is mandatory that you give the initial to start this intent.

intent

VISUAL REPRESENTATION

EXPLICIT INTENTS

Explicit intent basically specifies the component to be invoked from activity. In this type on intent we also pass the information from one activity to another activity.

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In this method onclick event of button we call the second activity by which is known as ArticlesActivity class.

COMMON INTENTS

Common intent is basically simple intent in which the specific components are displaed; you can select it and share the thing but the most important thing which you display is the list of components.

IMPLEMENTATION

After declaring this message in string section we move to the MainActivity class.

Now in main Activity we declare a method on onClick_share function,

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION