From the course: Android Development: Understanding Intents

Intents: a foundational Android concept - Android Tutorial

From the course: Android Development: Understanding Intents

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Intents: a foundational Android concept

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- [Instructor] Suppose you were developing an Android app and you needed to incorporate a feature to let the user take a photo or send an email. Wouldn't it be great if you could ask another app that already had that feature to perform that function for you? The Android Intent system lets you do just that and a lot more. Hi I'm Joe Marini and I've been developing software for companies like Google, Microsoft, and Adobe for more than 30 years. In this course we're going to learn about Android's built-in messaging system for exchanging data within your application as well as with other applications and system services. We'll learn the difference between explicit and implicit intents, see how to use intents to send data and information to other parts of your program, and take advantage of a wide range of built-in system intents to perform actions like taking a picture, displaying a location on a map, or searching for information on the web. Don't waste your development time solving problems that other apps have already solved, come join me in my course as we learn all about the Android Intents system.

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