Defining Intent requests

Before defining Intent requests, let's learn some basics about Intents. Intents help us launch an activity of our own application or another application. Google Maps provides several Intents that can be used with our application. Four operations can be performed using Google Maps. They are as follows:

• Display a map in Google Maps of a specified location with a specified zoom level

• Search for a specified location and display it on Google Maps

• Display turn-by-turn navigation using one of the three modes: driving, walking, and bicycling

• Display the Street View imagery

To make an Intent request, we must initially define an Intent object. The Intent should contain three components. They are:

• Action

• URI

• Package

Let's discuss this in detail.

Action

It defines what action should be performed. Here, we use an action to view the data. It is given as: ACTION_VIEW.

The action is usually set in Intent as:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, intentUri);

URI

URIs are used to specify...