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Intents and Sharing.md

Explicit Intents launch specific activity.

Implicit Intents specify WHAT you want done and system chooses activity.

Intent Action: the type of thing that the app wants to have done on its behalf, such as ACTION_VIEW, ACTION_DIAL or ACTION_EDIT

Intent Category adds a subtype to the action, such as CATEGORY_APP_MUSIC, CATEGORY_APP_GALLERY, CATEGORY_APP_MAPS, CATEGORY_APP_CALCULATOR, CATEGORY_APP_EMAIL, CATEGORY_APP_CALENDAR

**Intent Data Type (MIME Data Type) ** allows activities to support specific data types.

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