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page.title=Increase Usage with Android Intents
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page.metaDescription=Use Android Intents to make your app available to users as they perform tasks in other apps.
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page.tags="engagement, intents"
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@jd:body
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<p>Let the user choose <em>your app</em> to handle specific tasks from another app,
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such as sharing a picture, sending a message, or playing music. You can do this though
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Android's open Intents system. By adding Intent filters for the tasks your app can handle,
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you make it easy for the user to access your app’s features from other apps and from voice
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commands in Google Now.</p>
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<img src="{@docRoot}images/distribute/engage-intents.png">
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<p>By declaring Intent Filters in your app, it informs the Android OS about the
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actions it can perform for other apps. And in addition to making it easy for
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your users to make full use of your app’s features, it can help them discover
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features they didn’t know it supported.</p>
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<p>Get started with <a
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href="{@docRoot}training/basics/intents/index.html">Interacting with Other Apps</a>
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training.</p>
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<h2 id=tips>Tips</h2>
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<ul>
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<li> Identify and package any features your app can offer to other apps.
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<li> Use the "view" intent to give users the option to open any links to your
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website within your app instead.
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<li> Familiarize yourself with actions commonly accomplished with intents, such as
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sharing, so that you can focus on your app's core functionality and outsource
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common actions.
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</ul>
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<h2 style="clear:both" id="related-resources">Related Resources</h2>
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<div class="resource-widget resource-flow-layout col-13"
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data-query="collection:distribute/engage/intents"
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data-sortOrder="-timestamp"
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data-cardSizes="9x3"
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data-maxResults="6"></div>
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