What is 'Intent' in Android?

Hi,

An intent is an abstract description of an operation to be performed. It can be used with startActivity to launch an Activity, broadcastIntent to send it to any interested BroadcastReceiver components, and startService(Intent) or bindService(Intent, ServiceConnection, int) to communicate with a background Service. An Intent provides a facility for performing late runtime binding between the code in different applications. Its most significant use is in the launching of activities, where it can be thought of as the glue between activities. It is basically a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an action to be performed.

There are two primary forms of intents you will use.

Explicit Intents have specified a component (via setComponent(ComponentName) or setClass(Context, Class)), which provides the exact class to be run. Often these will not include any other information, simply being a way for an application to launch various internal activities it has as the user interacts with the application.
Implicit Intents have not specified a component; instead, they must include enough information for the system to determine which of the available components is best to run for that intent.

Please check this link you will get all information about Intent :

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html

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Neeraj Kumar11y ago
Read this Article
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/bd6c67/intent-in-android/
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Rajeesh Menoth11y ago
Hi

An Intent is exactly what it describes. It's an "intention" to do an action.

More details u just ref this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6578051/what-is-intent-in-android
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Manoj Bhoir11y ago
Hi,

An intent is an abstract description of an operation to be performed. It can be used with startActivity to launch an Activity, broadcastIntent to send it to any interested BroadcastReceiver components, and startService(Intent) or bindService(Intent, ServiceConnection, int) to communicate with a background Service. An Intent provides a facility for performing late runtime binding between the code in different applications. Its most significant use is in the launching of activities, where it can be thought of as the glue between activities. It is basically a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an action to be performed.
There are two primary forms of intents you will use.

Explicit Intents have specified a component (via setComponent(ComponentName) or setClass(Context, Class)), which provides the exact class to be run. Often these will not include any other information, simply being a way for an application to launch various internal activities it has as the user interacts with the application.

Implicit Intents have not specified a component; instead, they must include enough information for the system to determine which of the available components is best to run for that intent.
Please check this link you will get all information about Intent :
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html
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