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<li><a href="#Build">Build an Implicit Intent</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Verify">Verify There is an App to Receive the Intent</a></li>
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<li><a href="#StartActivity">Start an Activity with the Intent</a></li>
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<li><a href="#AppChooser">Show an App Chooser</a></li>
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</ol>
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<h2>You should also read</h2>
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<h2 id="AppChooser">Show an App Chooser</h2>
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<div class="figure" style="width:200px">
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<img src="{@docRoot}images/training/basics/intent-chooser.png" alt="" />
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<p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 2.</strong> Example of the chooser dialog that appears
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when you use {@link android.content.Intent#createChooser createChooser()} to ensure
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that the user is always shown a list of apps that respond to your intent.</p>
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</div>
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<p>Notice that when you start an activity by passing your {@link android.content.Intent} to {@link
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android.app.Activity#startActivity startActivity()} and there is more than one app that responds to
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the intent, the user can select which app to use by default (by selecting a checkbox at the bottom
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of the dialog; see figure 1). This is nice when performing an action for which the user
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generally wants to use the same app every time, such as when opening a web page (users
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likely use just one web browser) or taking a photo (users likely prefer one camera). However, if
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the action to be performed could be handled by multiple apps and the user might
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prefer a different app each time—such as a "share" action, for which users might have several
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apps through which they might share an item—you should explicitly show a chooser dialog,
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which forces the user to select which app to use for the action every time (the user cannot select a
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default app for the action).</p>
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<p>To show the chooser, create an {@link android.content.Intent} using {@link
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android.content.Intent#createChooser createChooser()} and pass it to {@link
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android.app.Activity#startActivity startActivity()}. For example:</p>
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<pre>
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Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
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...
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// Always use string resources for UI text. This says something like "Share this photo with"
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String title = getResources().getText(R.string.chooser_title);
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// Create and start the chooser
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Intent chooser = Intent.createChooser(intent, title);
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startActivity(chooser);
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</pre>
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<p>This displays a dialog with a list of apps that respond to the intent passed to the {@link
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android.content.Intent#createChooser createChooser()} method and uses the supplied text as the
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dialog title.</p>
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