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The topic chosen was Intent and Intent Filter are as follows, What is an Intent? An Intent is a messaging object you can use to request an action from another app component. There are three fundamental use cases: Starting an activity Starting a service Delivering a broadcast Complete Topics to be a Professional Android Developer The example below assumes that you are on the Photo Gallery Activity, and want to view a specific photo (which would open in its own activity). This is how the Intent associated with the click photo event is fired: The primary information contained in an  Intent  is the following: Component name - This optional field is an android ComponentName object representing either Activity, Service or BroadcastReceiver class.You can set the component name with setComponent(), setClass(), setClassName(), or with the Intent constructor. Action - This is mandatory part of the Intent o...

Content Provider in Android — In our series of Android articles, Previously we discussed about Activity , Services and Fragment . Here we are going to discuss about content providers and to cover the basic concepts you need to make use of existing ones or to write content providers on your own. It gets better, What are Content Providers? A Content Provider component supplies data from one application to others on request. Such requests are handled by the methods of the ContentResolver class. A content provider can use different ways to store its data and the data can be stored in files, in a database or even over a network. Content Providers support the four basic operations, normally called CRUD-operations. CRUD is the acronym for create, read, update and delete. With content providers those objects simply represent data as most often a record of a database — but they could also be a photo on your SD-card or a video on the web. Content URIs The most important concept ...

There are essentially two kinds of search in Android: local search and global search Local search enables users to search content of the currently visible app. Local search is appropriate for nearly every type of app. A recipe app could offer users to search for words in the title of the recipes or within the list of ingredients. Local search is strictly limited to the app offering it and it’s results are not visible outside of the app. Global search on the other hand makes the content also accessible from within the Quick Search Box on the home screen. Android uses multiple data source for global search and your app can be one of it. In the next screen taken on a tablet you can see the results of a Google search on the left and some results from apps or for app titles on the right. Quick Links Android device manager –Track your phone via internet Best Coding Practices forAndroid Development The user experience for local and global search is a ...