(Intent is a general description of the action to be performed. It is generally used as a parameter to help realize the communication between various components of Android. For example, call startActivity () to start an activity, perhaps broadcaseIntent () to pass it to all interested BroadcaseReceivers, or startService ()/bindservice () to start a background service It can be seen that intent is mainly used to start other activities or services, so it can be understood as the adhesive between activities.
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