What Are Android Filters?
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An intent filter is an expression in an app’s manifest file that specifies the type of intents that the component would like to receive. For instance, by declaring an intent filter for an activity, you make it possible for other apps to directly start your activity with a certain kind of intent.

What will happen if you have two or more activities with the same intent filter action name?

If there is more than one activities with same intent filter name, than the android system will show a dialog window that prompt you to choose an appropriate activity to complete the action.

What is the purpose of the IntentFilter class?

An intent filter is an instance of the IntentFilter class. Intent filters are helpful while using implicit intents, It is not going to handle in java code, we have to set it up in AndroidManifest.

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