March 20th, 2008

Android Dev Blog Release ‘Routing Intents’ Article

Following on from their previous Android developer article in which they detailed the use of the Linkify function, Google have released a second in which they delve deeper into Android’s routing intents.

This article will examine how the Android operating system takes this combination of VIEW action and content: URI and finds the correct activity to fire in order to do something with the data. It will also explain how the other default links created by Linkify, like web URLs and telephone numbers, also result in the correct activity to handle that data type being fired. Finally, this article will start to examine the custom ContentProvider that has been created to handle WikiNotes data. The full description of the ContentProvider and what it does will span a couple more articles as well, because there is a lot to cover.

[Read the full article at the Official Android developer blog]