android-Intents and Intent Filters and Common Intents

You can deliver a broadcast to other apps by passing an Intent to sendBroadcast(), sendOrderedBroadcast(), or sendStickyBroadcast().

Without a component name, the intent is implicit and the system decides which component should receive the intent based on the other intent information (such as the action, data, and category—described below). 

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<action>

Declares the intent action accepted, in the  name attribute. The value must be the literal string value of an action, not the class constant.

<data>

Declares the type of data accepted, using one or more attributes that specify various aspects of the data URI ( scheme,  host,  port,  path, etc.) and MIME type.

<category>

Declares the intent category accepted, in the  name attribute. The value must be the literal string value of an action, not the class constant.

For all activities, you must declare your intent filters in the manifest file. 

• PendingIntent.getActivity() for an Intent that starts an Activity.
• PendingIntent.getService() for an Intent that starts a Service.
• PendingIntent.getBroadcast() for a Intent that starts an BroadcastReceiver.