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    Title
    Dedication
    Contents at a Glance
    Contents
    About the Authors
    About the Technical Reviewers
    Acknowledgments
    Preface
    Chapter 1: Introducing the Android Computing Platform
    Chapter 2: Setting up your Development Environment
    Chapter 3: Understanding Android Resources
    Chapter 4: Understanding Content Providers
    Chapter 5: Understanding Intents
    Basics of Android Intents
    Available Intents in Android
    Exploring Intent Composition
    Exercising the ACTION_PICK
    Exercising the GET_CONTENT Action
    Introducing Pending Intents
    Resources
    Summary
    Interview Questions
    Chapter 6: Building User Interfaces and Using Controls
    Chapter 7: working with menus
    Chapter 8: Fragments for Tablets and More
    Chapter 9: Working with Dialogs
    Chapter 10: Exploring ActionBar
    Chapter 11: Advanced Debugging and Analysis
    Chapter 12: Responding to Configuration Changes
    Chapter 13: Working with Preferences and Saving State
    Chapter 14: Exploring Security and Permissions
    Chapter 15: Building and Consuming Services
    Chapter 16: Exploring Packages
    Chapter 17: Exploring Handlers
    Chapter 18: Exploring the AsyncTask
    Chapter 19: Broadcast Receivers and Long-Running Services
    Chapter 20: Exploring the Alarm Manager
    Chapter 21: Exploring 2D Animation
    Chapter 22: Exploring Maps and Location-based Services
    Chapter 23: Using the Telephony APIs
    Chapter 24: Understanding the Media Frameworks
    Chapter 25: Home Screen Widgets
    Chapter 26: Exploring List Widgets
    Chapter 27: Touch Screens
    Chapter 28: Implementing Drag and Drop
    Chapter 29: Using Sensors
    Chapter 30: Exploring the Contacts API
    Chapter 31: Deploying Your Application: Android Market and Beyond
    Index
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    Chapter 5: Understanding Intents

    Chapter  5

    Understanding Intents

    Android introduced a concept called intents to invoke components. The list of components in Android includes activities (UI components), services (background code), broadcast receivers (code that responds to broadcast messages), and content providers (code that abstracts data).


      

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