# Understanding Android Intents for App-to-App Interaction

DevFeed: [Understanding Android Intents for App-to-App Interaction](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-your-intent-30575.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ryanharter.com/blog/2014/11/whats-your-intent/>)

Published: 2014-11-26T07:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blogs on Ryan Harter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blogs-on-ryan-harter.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [android-apps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-apps.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [WebView](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webview.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-apps.md>), [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [use-cases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/use-cases.md>), [webview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webview.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains Android's Intent system as a way for apps to interact and exchange data without knowing the specific apps involved. It compares Intents with URLs and describes action and request use cases, including launching activities and handling external content.

## Source excerpt

One of the most powerful, yet sometimes overlooked, features of Android is the Intent system. Android's Intents allow apps to interact with each other, without intimate knowledge of each other. Intents are one of the differentiating factors that allows Android apps to interact and send data beyond their walls, while still keeping the system relatively safe. Anatomy of an Intent I like to think of Intents as the opposite of URLs. You remember URLs, right? That's how you got to this page.