Android implicit intents VS explicit intents

Question

Working with android I realized that implicit intents are good choice in most of cases due to their\'s flexibility. But what\'s about explicit intents? What are benefits of

Answer 1

Implicit Intent

• It Pulls up the new Application without being specified which one to pull up.
• It specifies only action to be performed and do not directly specify Android Components.
• URI can be used with implicit Intent to specify the type of data.

Explicit Intent

• It will pull up a specific application and is set while writing the code.
• It is used in application itself wherein one activity can switch to other activity.
• Used to pass data to other activity using put extra method and retrieved by target activity getIntent().
• It is always delivered to target even filter is not consulted.