Common Android Intent Usage

Part of the Android Application Development For Dummies Cheat Sheet

You’ll use a few basic intents most of the time while developing apps for Android. The following table shows you the code for several basic Android intents.

Intent	Code
Start an activity	startActivity(new Intent(this, Destination.class));
Create a chooser	Intent.createChooser(yourIntent, "Please Select");
Open the web browser	Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://example.org")); startActivity(i);
Start activity for a result	startActivityForResult(yourIntent, YOUR_REQUEST_CODE);