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    An android application is made up of core building blocks including activities, views, intents, services, content providers, and fragments. Activities represent single screens, views are the UI elements, intents are used to invoke components, services run in the background, content providers share data between applications, and fragments are reusable parts of an activity. The AndroidManifest file contains metadata about the application components. Android Virtual Devices can be used to test applications without real devices.

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    An android application is made up of core building blocks including activities, views, intents, services, content providers, and fragments. Activities represent single screens, views are the UI elements, intents are used to invoke components, services run in the background, content providers share data between applications, and fragments are reusable parts of an activity. The AndroidManifest file contains metadata about the application components. Android Virtual Devices can be used to test applications without real devices.

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    An android application is made up of core building blocks including activities, views, intents, services, content providers, and fragments. Activities represent single screens, views are the UI elements, intents are used to invoke components, services run in the background, content providers share data between applications, and fragments are reusable parts of an activity. The AndroidManifest file contains metadata about the application components. Android Virtual Devices can be used to test applications without real devices.

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    Android Core Building Blocks

    An android component is simply a piece of code that has a well defined life cycle e.g.
    Activity, Receiver, Service etc.

    The core building blocks or fundamental components of android are activities,


    views, intents, services, content providers, fragments and AndroidManifest.xml.

    Activity

    An activity is a class that represents a single screen. It is like a Frame in AWT.

    View

    A view is the UI element such as button, label, text field etc. Anything that you see is a
    view.

    Intent

    Intent is used to invoke components. It is mainly used to:

    o Start the service


    o Launch an activity
    o Display a web page
    o Display a list of contacts
    o Broadcast a message
    o Dial a phone call etc.

    For example, you may write the following code to view the webpage.

    1. Intent intent=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);


    2. intent.setData(Uri.parse("http://www.javatpoint.com"));
    3. startActivity(intent);

    Service

    Service is a background process that can run for a long time.

    There are two types of services local and remote. Local service is accessed from within
    the application whereas remote service is accessed remotely from other applications
    running on the same device.
    Content Provider

    Content Providers are used to share data between the applications.

    Fragment

    Fragments are like parts of activity. An activity can display one or more fragments on
    the screen at the same time.

    AndroidManifest.xml

    It contains informations about activities, content providers, permissions etc. It is like


    the web.xml file in Java EE.

    Android Virtual Device (AVD)

    It is used to test the android application without the need for mobile or tablet etc. It
    can be created in different configurations to emulate different types of real devices.

    1. package first.javatpoint.com.welcome;
    2.
    3. import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; // The theory is that AppCompatActivity makes

    it easier for you to develop apps that will behave consistently across many versions of Android, compared to inheriting from

    Activity or some other subclass of Activity .

    4. import android.os.Bundle; // Bundle is a class in android which is used to pass data from one activity to another

    activity within an android application. We can pass data using key and value pairs using bundles.

    5.
    6. public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    7. @Override
    8. protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    9. super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    10. setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    11. }
    12. }

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