Intents & Intent Filters

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Intents & Intents Filter

Intents : request for an action to be
performed (usually on a set of data) and Broadcast Receivers (as being capable of performing an action on a set of data)

Intent Filters : register Activities, Services, Broadcast Receivers : listens to intents

Intents
Support interaction between any
application components available on an Android device

start a new Activity broadcast messages (broadcast intents)

Starting a new Activity

Intent intent = new Intent (......................); startActivity(intent);

Intents

Starting a new Activity

Dial a number

Intents

Intent intent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_DIAL, Uri.parse(tel:93675359)); startActivity(intent);

Launch a website

Intent intent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(http://codeandroid.org)); startActivity(intent);

Starting a new Activity

Launch an Activity

Intents

Intent intent = new Intent (this, HelloWorld.class); startActivity(intent);

Launch an Activity

Intent intent = new Intent (this, HelloWorld.class); intent.putExtra(title,Hello codeandroid); startActivity(intent);

Intent Filters
AndroidManifest.xml

<activity android:name=.HelloWorld android:label=@string/app_name> <intent-lter> <action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN/> <category android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER/> </intent-lter> </activity>
Launch Hello World

Intent intent = new Intent (this, HelloWorld.class); startActivity(intent);

Intent Filters
Required for Intent resolution to
match Intents to Activities, Services, or BroadcastReceivers AndroidManifest.xml of an application

Most Intent Filters are declared in

Intent Filters
AndroidManifest.xml

<activity android:name=.HelloWorld android:label=@string/app_name> <intent-lter> <action android:name=org.codeandroid.intentstest.HelloWorld/> <category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT/> </intent-lter> </activity>
Launch Hello World

Intent intent = new Intent (org.codeandroid.intentstest.HelloWorld); startActivity(intent);

Intent Filters
AndroidManifest.xml <activity android:name=.HelloWorld android:label=@string/app_name> <intent-lter> <action android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW/> <category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT/> <category android:name=android.intent.category.BROWSABLE/> <data android:scheme=http android:host=androidium.org/> </intent-lter> </activity> Launch Hello World

Intent intent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(http://androidium.org)); startActivity(intent);

Intent Filters
AndroidManifest.xml <activity android:name=.HelloWorld android:label=@string/app_name> <intent-lter> <action android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW/> <category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT/> <category android:name=android.intent.category.BROWSABLE/> <data android:scheme=http android:host=www.google.com android:pathPrex=/advanced_search /> </intent-lter> </activity>

Intent Filters
AndroidManifest.xml <activity android:name=.HelloWorld android:label=@string/app_name> <intent-lter> <action android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW/> <category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT/> <category android:name=android.intent.category.BROWSABLE/> <data android:scheme=codeandroid/> </intent-lter> </activity> Launch Hello World

Intent intent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(codeandroid://)); startActivity(intent);

Launch the Android Market

Uri marketUri = Uri.parse(http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.buuuk.buUuk) Intent intent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_VIEW, marketUri); startActivity(intent);

Intents

Uri marketUri = Uri.parse(market://search?q=pname:com.buuuk.buUuk) Intent intent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_VIEW, marketUri); startActivity(intent);

Broadcast Intents

Intents

broadcast messages between

components with the sendBroadcast method broadcasting to current and other applications

makes an application more open, by

Broadcast Intents

Intents

Intent intent = new Intent(org.codeandroid.intentstest.TestBroadcastReceiver); sendBroadcast(intent);

Broadcast Receivers
listen to Broadcast Intents must be registered (either in code or
within the app manifest

use Intent Filter to specify which

Intents it is listening for

Broadcast Receivers
registered inside code
IntentFilter lter = new IntentFilter(org.codeandroid.intentstest.TestBroadcastReceiver); TestBroadcastReceiver receiver = new TestBroadcastReceiver(); registerReceiver(receiver, lter);
public class TestBroadcastReceiver extends Broadcast Receiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
(.................... do something here................)

} }

Broadcast Receivers
register in app manifest
<receiver android:name=CameraPressedReceiver> <intent-lter> <action android:name=android.intent.action.CAMERA_BUTTON /> </intent-lter> </receiver> public class CameraPressed extends Broadcast Receiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { } }
(.................... do something here................)