Open New Activity Using Intent: Kotlin

Intent facilitate communication between android application components in several ways, there are three fundamental use cases:

• Starting an Activity
• Starting an Service
• Delivering a Broadcast

In this article we are going to see how Intent is used for starting an Activity.

There are two types of Intent:

• Implicit Intent
• Explicit Intent.
  

Implicit intent: Implicit Intent is used to call Android built in activities like

• Camera
• Browser
• Gallery
• Dial/Call screen

Syntax:

Var i=Intent()

i.setAction(Intent.ACTION_NAME)

startActivity(i)

Explicit Intent: Explicit Intent is used for calling user generated Activities.

Syntax:

Var i=Intent(context, ActivityName::class.java)

startActivity(i)