use of intents

Darren69

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Hello,

Trying to get my head around intents.

is it possible / how do i send values that are generated within one application to another application?

I have an app that calculates pixels for a given LED screen, and a second program that will generate a media grid, I could make it a single program, but want to reuse the grid generation program for another application, so how do I send values from one to the other?

I have been reading through the forums, but I don't think I am fully understanding if I need to do something special in the receiving intent.

thanks in advance

Darren
 
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thedesolatesoul

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The receiver:

Write an intent filter in your manifest
- Action
- Category

Create an activity or service to deal with this intent.
- Activity for foreground action, service for background action.
- Use GetStartingIntent to get the intent and then Intent.GetExtras to get any extra information
 
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yttrium

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Darren69 said:
but want to reuse the grid generation program
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You could always wrap the grid generation program into a library, and use it in both apps.
 
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