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Can I Use this Intent?
Android offers a very powerful and yet easy-to-use message type called an intent. You can use intents to turn applications into high-level libraries and make code modular and reusable. While it is nice to be able to make use of a loosely coupled API, there is no guarantee that the intent you send will be received by another application. This article describes a technique you can use to find out whether the system contains any application capable of responding to the intent you want to use.
WikiNotes: Routing Intents
This article illustrates how an application, in this case the WikiNotes sample app, can use intents to route various types of linked text to the application that handles that type of data. For example, an app can use intents to route a linked telephone number to a dialer app and a web URL to a browser.