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pronay biswas
pronay biswas

Reputation: 45

Query about Intent.ACTION_VIEW in android

In Intent.ACTION_VIEW what is Intent? Is it a class or method and here what is ACTION_VIEW ? is it a variable and what is the type of it's ? please explain in details. thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4653

Answers (2)

BlackHatSamurai
BlackHatSamurai

Reputation: 23483

Intent is a public class that is most commonly used to start new Activities. For instance: 

Intent intent = new Intent(CurrentActivity.this, NextActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);

I'd recommend reading the Android Development manual, and trying a couple easy tutorials to get started. You can find that here: http://developer.android.com/training/index.html

This page will describe ACTION_VIEW and Intent in detail; much better than I can: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 1

gsb
gsb

Reputation: 5640

Intent in android is an abstract public Class. ACTION_VIEW is the action on Intent. 

public static final String ACTION_VIEW

Since: API Level 1 Activity Action: Display the data to the user. This is the most common action performed on data -- it is the generic action you can use on a piece of data to get the most reasonable thing to occur. For example, when used on a contacts entry it will view the entry; when used on a mailto: URI it will bring up a compose window filled with the information supplied by the URI; when used with a tel: URI it will invoke the dialer.

Input: getData() is URI from which to retrieve data.

Output: nothing.

Constant Value: "android.intent.action.VIEW"

You need to read the developers guide for Android. You will get a better understanding here.

Upvotes: 1

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