Android，java发送intent，native c/c++发送intent, am命令行执行程序。

先来看看google如何表述的：

An intent is an abstract description of an operation to be performed. It can be used with startActivity to launch an Activity, broadcastIntent to send it to any interested BroadcastReceiver components, and startService(Intent) or bindService(Intent, ServiceConnection, int) to communicate with a background Service.

一个Intent就是要执行的操作的抽象描述，是Android里很重要的，完成Android各个组件之间的通讯。

例如：启动一个Activity.

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClassName("com.android.browser.ProxySelector");
startActivity(intent);

Java发送一个Intent相信大家都很熟悉，那我们如何在Native层的代码里如何发送呢，比如在C中发送。其实Android提供了一个工具am，是命令行执行Android程序等。所以发送一个Intent就容易的多了:

char intent[1024] = {0};

sprintf(intent, "am start -a com.android.browser.ProxySelector);

system(intent);

顺便介绍下am:

EMMA: collecting runtime coverage data ...
usage: am [subcommand] [options]

    start an Activity: am start [-D] [-W] <INTENT>
        -D: enable debugging
        -W: wait for launch to complete

    start a Service: am startservice <INTENT>

    send a broadcast Intent: am broadcast <INTENT>

    start an Instrumentation: am instrument [flags] <COMPONENT>
        -r: print raw results (otherwise decode REPORT_KEY_STREAMRESULT)
        -e <NAME> <VALUE>: set argument <NAME> to <VALUE>
        -p <FILE>: write profiling data to <FILE>
        -w: wait for instrumentation to finish before returning

    start profiling: am profile <PROCESS> start <FILE>
    stop profiling: am profile <PROCESS> stop

    start monitoring: am monitor [--gdb <port>]
        --gdb: start gdbserv on the given port at crash/ANR

    <INTENT> specifications include these flags:
        [-a <ACTION>] [-d <DATA_URI>] [-t <MIME_TYPE>]
        [-c <CATEGORY> [-c <CATEGORY>] ...]
        [-e|--es <EXTRA_KEY> <EXTRA_STRING_VALUE> ...]
        [--esn <EXTRA_KEY> ...]
        [--ez <EXTRA_KEY> <EXTRA_BOOLEAN_VALUE> ...]
        [-e|--ei <EXTRA_KEY> <EXTRA_INT_VALUE> ...]
        [-n <COMPONENT>] [-f <FLAGS>]
        [--grant-read-uri-permission] [--grant-write-uri-permission]
        [--debug-log-resolution]
        [--activity-brought-to-front] [--activity-clear-top]
        [--activity-clear-when-task-reset] [--activity-exclude-from-recents]
        [--activity-launched-from-history] [--activity-multiple-task]
        [--activity-no-animation] [--activity-no-history]
        [--activity-no-user-action] [--activity-previous-is-top]
        [--activity-reorder-to-front] [--activity-reset-task-if-needed]
        [--activity-single-top]
        [--receiver-registered-only] [--receiver-replace-pending]
        [<URI>]

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原来也是如此简单的。