This blog will focus on Android, but a similar mechanism called app extensions was introduced in iOS 8. While the action to view a video described above would only launch the one specific application selected by the user, a broadcast will rather be passed to any application which subscribes to it.
This is usually formatted as an "explicit intent", meaning that the fully qualified name of the service to start is provided, so it cannot be intercepted by any other applications.Īnother way intents are used is for broadcasts, for instance when the time zone of the device changes. What is described above is one use case, but intents are also used for other things: One such thing is launching services inside the application. This is the first of a few articles showing how to use intents with Qt for Android. If they choose, they can set a default at this point, or select to be asked for every instance. The first time a type of intent is seen, the user of the device will be presented with a selection of applications known to subscribe to that type of intent. Applications can subscribe to certain intents by setting an intent filter in their manifest files. It could for instance be a request to show a video, in which case the intent type would be ACTION_VIEW and the mime type would be set accordingly. Basically, an intent is an object that is processed by the operating system and then passed to one or more of the installed applications based on its contents. The " intent" is the main facility for interprocess communication on Android.
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