Recent Posts by Matt Harrison

Topic: Hello, Android / Hello, Android

Ed,

Firstly, thanks for your book. I’m just starting out with Android and as you get onto the more advanced topics I guess it is going to be more and more valuable.
One of the things I am struggling to get my head around are intents. Maybe they are worth a section. As far as I can see they are one entity usedfor many purposes… here are a few headings you might consider explaining in more detail.

1) Using intents to launch sub activities
2) Using Intents to launch external activities
3) Using intents for restful operations
4) Using intents for background broadcasting
5) Subscribing to standard Phone broadacast intents
6) registering scheme handling intents

There’s an example of the background broadcasting on my blog. http://blog.droidapps.co.uk feel free to use it if appropriate.

Hope the feedback helps,

regards, Matt