How to call built-in applications using intents in Android
In this tutorial for developing android apps we will learn how to call built-in applications using intents
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How to call built-in applications using intents in Android
Developing android apps specially the games required opengl for providing better graphics. We have seen how to get started with opengl es for android, and will continue the opengl tutorial for android programming . Today's we are going to learn an important concept in this android development tutorial, how to call built-in applications using intents in Android. This give advantage to developer taking in-build apps and throw user to them if required.
Calling built in applications using intents in Android is important as it give user more choices. For example in an app you want user make a call or open a document (pdf) let you use the in-build apps, take off the burden in developing those apps. You might have seen in previous Whatsapp, which let user call from within the app (now they have their own voip).
Android intent example
Lets get started with how to use intent in android. The following Try It Out demonstrates how to call some of the built-in applications commonly found on…
