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Android Intents and Broadcast Receivers Broadcast Receivers Custom Broadcast Intents and Receivers

Maya Shen
Maya Shen
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Posted by Maya Shen
Maya Shen
7,056 Points

When to use broadcast and when to use intent filter to pass intent from one app to another?

I see that both intent filter and broadcast recover can pass intent from one to anther. Is there any preference of using these two different methods?