The Intent object in android is having following characteristics to help the android system to understand which component should start. Generally, in android Intent object contains the information required to determine which component to start and the information about the action to be performed by the recipient component.

In android, Intents are the objects of types and intents are mainly useful to perform the following things.īy sending an Intent object to startActivity() method we can start a new Activity or existing Activity to perform required things.īy sending an Intent object to startService() method we can start a new Service or send required instructions to an existing Service.īy sending an Intent object to sendBroadcast() method we can deliver our messages to other app broadcast receivers. Generally, in android, Intents will help us to maintain the communication between app components from the same application as well as with the components of other applications. In android, Intent is a messaging object which is used to request an action from another app component such as activities, services, broadcast receivers, and content providers.

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