30 .WHAT IS AN INTENT IN ANDROID | EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT INTENT TUTORIAL

WHAT IS AN INTENT IN ANDROID | EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT INTENT TUTORIAL.

In this video you will learn
1. What is an intent
2. Types of Intent
3. Various use of Intent

So intent is basically use communicate between two activities in Android.

Intent can be bascially used to communicate between 2 activities inside the same app or to communicate between two activities in different app.

There are two types of intent
1. Explicit Intent
2. Implicit Intent

Explicit Intent - In explicit Intent the communication takes place between 2 activities inside the same application

Implicit Intent - In implicit intent communication takes place between 2 activities of different application

Implicit intent is basically used for starting services like
Like phonecall, sms, maps, etc

Intents are also used to pass data from one activity to another activity