This tutorial is about to increase your Android Developer Level to over 9000!!! :] Getting Startedįirst, download the Memeify project using the Download Materials button at the top or bottom of this tutorial. You’ll also need Android Studio 3.4 or later. If you’re new to Android Development, it’s highly recommended that you work through Beginning Android Development and Kotlin for Android to get a grip on the basic tools and concepts. How to receive or respond to an Intent sent by another app.How you can use an Intent to create and retrieve content from other apps for use in your own.What an Intent is and what its wider role is within Android.Along the way, you’ll learn the following: In this intents tutorial, you are going to harness the power of Intents to create your very own meme generator. Before an app can perform an action, it needs to know what that actions purpose, or intent, is in order to carry out that action properly.Īs it turns out, humans and Android aren’t so different after all. Most of everything they do - from watching TV, to shopping, to coding the next killer app - has some sort of purpose, or intent, behind it.Īndroid works in much the same way. People don’t wander around the world aimlessly.

Previous updates by Artem Kholodnyi and Steven Smith.

The original tutorial was written by Darryl Bayliss. Update note: This tutorial has been updated to Kotlin, Android 28 (Pie) and Android Studio 3.4 by Jennifer Bailey.

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