Head First Android Development: A Brain-Friendly Guide

Author: Dawn Griffiths, David Griffiths
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by anonymous   2018-03-19

You can think of an intent as an “intent to do something”. It’s a type of message that allows you to bind separate objects (such as activities) together at runtime.

If one activity wants to start a second activity, it does it by sending an intent to Android. Android will start the second activity and pass it the intent.

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