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AndrodApplicationEng 07march2012

- Activate three components of an application including an activity, activity service, and service broadcast receiver. - Intents contain information like the component name, action, data, category, extras, and flags. Common actions include VIEW, EDIT, and MAIN. - Explicit intents designate a specific target component class, while implicit intents do not specify the target and can activate components in other apps. - To add a new activity, create an activity class, layout XML file, and reference the activity in the manifest.

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AndrodApplicationEng 07march2012

- Activate three components of an application including an activity, activity service, and service broadcast receiver. - Intents contain information like the component name, action, data, category, extras, and flags. Common actions include VIEW, EDIT, and MAIN. - Explicit intents designate a specific target component class, while implicit intents do not specify the target and can activate components in other apps. - To add a new activity, create an activity class, layout XML file, and reference the activity in the manifest.

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Intent

Intent
Activate three components of an application.
activity, activity service, service broadcast receiver

Contains
Component
The name of the component

Action
A string naming of the action to be perform

Data
The URI of the data to be acted on The MIME type of that data

Category
A String containing additional information about the kind of component

Extras
Key-value pairs for additional information

Flags
Many instruct the Android system how to launch an activity
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Intent
The primary pieces of information in an intent are:
action The general action to be performed, such as ACTION_VIEW, ACTION_EDIT, AC TION_MAIN, etc. data d t The data to operate on, such as a person record in the contacts database, expre ssed as a Uri.

Some examples of action/data pairs are:


ACTION_VIEW content://contacts/people/1 ACTION DIAL content://contacts/people/1 ACTION_DIAL ACTION_DIAL tel:123 ACTION_EDIT content://contacts/people/1 ACTION_VIEW content://contacts/people/ ACTION_CALL tel:123

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Explicit p intent & Implicit p intent


explicit intent
Explicit intents designate the target component by its name

implicit intent
Implicit intents do not name a target Implicit intents are often used to activate components in other applications pp

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Explicit p intent

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Implicit p intent
Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_WEB_SEARCH); intent.putExtra(SearchManager. ( QUERY, "searchString"); " ") startActivity(intent);

Uri uri = Uri.parse( "tel:010512"); Intent intent = new Intent(Intent Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL, ACTION DIAL uri); startActivity(intent);

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StartActivity y
example

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How to add an Activity y

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How to add an Activity y

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How to add an Activity y

The name of a class to be added

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How to add a layout y XML file

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How to add a layout y XML file

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How to add a layout y XML file

A full name of the xml file File-based resource names must contain only lowercase a-z, 0-9 or _

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Exercise - explicit p

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Main Activity

The second Activity

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A layout XML file of the second Activity

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout y _width="fill_p parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" > <TextView android:text="This is the second activity of this application" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> </LinearLayout>

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onCreate() of the second Activity

public class JenSecondActivity extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.second); }

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onClickListener of the main Activity

Button btn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.Button01); btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { Intent i = new Intent(); i.setClass(JStartActivity.this, JenSecondActivity.class); startActivity(i); } });

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Exercise implicit p intent

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Exercise implicit p intent


OnClickListener mListener = new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { if(v.getId() == R.id.btn_snd) { Intent i = new Intent(); i.setClass(Jen_ActivityTestActivity.this, y y MySecondActivity.class); y y startActivity(i); } else if (v.getId()== R.id.btn_call) { Intent i = new Intent(); i.setAction(Intent.ACTION_CALL); i.setData(Uri.parse("tel:012345678")); startActivity(i); }

};

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Exercise implicit p intent


Add a uses permission in the menifest file

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Exercise implicit p intent


Add a uses permission in the menifest file

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