Intents and Broadcast Receivers Course (How To)

Intents allow Android apps to communicate with each other in a standard way, and broadcast receivers enable an app to listen for specific events. In this course you'll learn how to utilize both to integrate your apps with other apps and aspects of the Android system.

What you'll learn

• Intents
• Broadcast Receivers

For All Intents and Purposes

Intents in Android allow developers to easily leverage other parts of Android, or other apps, to help do things in the context of their app. Intents change devices from a grab bag of independent apps to a system of integrated components.

Chevron 10 steps

• Communication is Hard

  2:56

• Setting Up the Project

  3:42

• Explicit vs Implicit Intents

  4:45

• Review: Intents

  5 questions

• Intent Extras and Results

  4:28

• Intentional Practice

  4 objectives

• Passing Results Back to Activities

  5:45

• Parcelable Complex Data

  5:29

• Unpacking Parcelable Data

  4:47

• Parcel All the Things!

  2 objectives

Implicit Intents and Intent Filters

One of the great things about Android is that you can send an Intent without knowing exactly what will handle it. In this stage we'll talk about these types of Intents, known as Implicit Intents. We'll also see how to listen for these types of Intents.

Chevron 9 steps

• Using an Implicit Intent

  4:13

• Unmatched Implicit Intents

  5:30

• Review: Implicit Intents

  5 questions

• Intent Filters

  3:58

• Handling an Intent from a Filter

  4:24

• Creating Intent Filters

  1 objective

• Sharing Songs with a Custom Intent

  5:06

• Using a Custom Intent Filter

  6:57

• Review: Custom Intent Filters

  5 questions

Broadcast Receivers

Broadcast Intents and Receivers are used to communicate system-wide events and information to any app that cares to receive the data. In this stage we'll learn how to create system and custom broadcast receivers.

Chevron 8 steps

• Broadcast Intents and Receivers

  2:27

• Registering in the Manifest

  4:13

• Creating a Manifest Receiver

  1 objective

• Registering in Code

  3:25

• Creating a Receiver in Code

  3 objectives

• Updating the UI from a Broadcast Receiver

  7:03

• Custom Broadcast Intents and Receivers

  3:24

• Review: Broadcast Receivers

  5 questions

Local Notifications

Notifications are used to communicate with the user via the Notification Drawer that's always available at the top of the screen. Notifications are easy to setup and provide a lot of value to users.

Chevron 5 steps

• Adding Text to a Notification

  4:52

• Opening an App via a Notification

  2:41

• Adding a Download Notification

  5:28

• Wrapping Up

  1:34

• Creating a Local Notification

  5 objectives