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  • Building Apps with
    User Info & Location
  • Building Apps for
    Wearables
  • Best Practices for
    Interaction & Engagement
  • Best Practices for
    User Interface
  • Best Practices for
    User Input
  • Best Practices for
    Background Jobs
  • Best Practices for
    Performance
  • Best Practices for
    Security & Privacy
  • Best Practices for
    Testing
  • Using Google Play to
    Distribute & Monetize

    • Sharing Simple Data

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    Dependencies and prerequisites

    One of the great things about Android applications is their ability to communicate and integrate with each other. Why reinvent functionality that isn't core to your application when it already exists in another application?

    This class covers some common ways you can send and receive simple data between applications using Intent APIs and the ActionProvider object.

    Lessons

    Sending Simple Data to Other Apps
    Learn how to set up your application to be able to send text and binary data to other applications with intents.
    Receiving Simple Data from Other Apps
    Learn how to set up your application to receive text and binary data from intents.
    Adding an Easy Share Action
    Learn how to add a "share" action item to your action bar.
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