54.1 Creating the Explicit Intent Example Application

Select the Create New Project quick start option from the welcome screen and, within the resulting new project dialog, choose the Empty Activity template before clicking on the Next button.

Enter ExplicitIntent into the Name field and specify com.ebookfrenzy.explicitintent as the package name. Before clicking on the Finish button, change the Minimum API level setting to API 26: Android 8.0 (Oreo) and the Language menu to Java.

Designing the User Interface Layout for MainActivity

The user interface for MainActivity will consist of a ConstraintLayout view containing EditText (Plain Text), TextView and Button views named editText1, textView1 and button1 respectively. Using the Project tool window, locate the activity_main.xml resource file for MainActivity (located under app -> res -> layout) and double-click on it to load it into the Android Studio Layout Editor tool. Select and delete the default “Hello World...