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    There are four main types of application components in Android: (1) Activities which provide the visual user interface, (2) Services which run background tasks without a UI, (3) Broadcast receivers which receive system-wide announcements, and (4) Content providers which allow sharing data between applications. Intents are used to start activities, services, and broadcast receivers and include implicit intents which specify an action without a specific component, and explicit intents which specify a component class.

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    There are four main types of application components in Android: (1) Activities which provide the visual user interface, (2) Services which run background tasks without a UI, (3) Broadcast receivers which receive system-wide announcements, and (4) Content providers which allow sharing data between applications. Intents are used to start activities, services, and broadcast receivers and include implicit intents which specify an action without a specific component, and explicit intents which specify a component class.

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    There are four main types of application components in Android: (1) Activities which provide the visual user interface, (2) Services which run background tasks without a UI, (3) Broadcast receivers which receive system-wide announcements, and (4) Content providers which allow sharing data between applications. Intents are used to start activities, services, and broadcast receivers and include implicit intents which specify an action without a specific component, and explicit intents which specify a component class.

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    Android Components

    Vivek Nadar

    Application Components

    There are 4 types of application components


    (1) Activities visual user interface focused
    on a single thing a user can do
    (2) Services no visual interface
    they run in the background

    (3) Broadcast Receivers


    receive and react to broadcast announcements
    (4) Content Providers
    allow data exchange between applications

    What is an Activity ?
    An Activity means a single screen with a user interface.
    An application usually consists of multiple activities
    that are loosely bound to each other.
    Activity generally provides a user with an interactive screen to do
    something like:
    Dialing the phone, Viewing a map, etc.
    Every screen in an application,is an activity by itself.

    Intents

    Intents are used as a message-passing mechanism, that works both within


    application and between applications.
    Two types of Intents:

    1) Implicit
    Implicit does not specify a component. Instead,it includes enough
    information for the system to determine which of the available
    components is best to run for that intent.

    Example :
    Intent webIntent = new
    Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.parse("http://www.google.com"));
    startActivity(webIntent);

    Intents...(2)
    2) Explicit Intents

    Explicit Intents explicitly defines the component which should be


    called by the Android system, by using the Java class as identifier.
    e.g. Intent launchExplicitIntent = new Intent(this,Game.class);
    startActivity(launchExplicitIntent);

    Program Demo

    2. Services
    A Task that runs in the background without
    the user's direct interaction.

    A service does not have a visual user interface.

    A service,by default runs in the main thread of the application

    that hosts it.

    Examples

    Network Downloads

    Playing Music

    Checking updates for an application

    Program Demo

    3. Broadcast receiver

    A Broadcast receiver is a component that responds to


    system-wide Broadcast announcements.

    Many broadcasts originate from the system - for e.g.


    a Broadcast announcing that the
    screen has turned off, the battery is low,
    a picture was captured or an SMS is received.

    Broadcast receiver...(2)

    An Application can also initiate broadcast


    for e.g.to let other Applications know that
    some data has been downloaded to the device
    and is available for those application to use.

    It creates a status bar notification to alert the user when a


    broadcast event occurs.

    4. Content Providers

    Shared set of data.

    Makes some of the application data

    available to other applications

    It is the only way to transfer data between applications in


    Android (no shared files,

    no shared memory,no pipes, etc.)

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