Dealing with implicit intent future deprecation in Lollipop

Question

To transmit data to other applications I\'ve been using implicit intents as in examples below:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(\"com.example.OpenU         


        

Answer 1

As said in other comments and answers, the change is only relevant to bindService and not sendBroadcast, so if that's the case (as in your sample code) - you don't need to change anything.

If you do use bindService, the way to make an implicit Intent to an explicit Intent is to use a ComponentName and set it on the service Intent using the setComponent or setClass method.

From the Intent class documentation:

Intent Resolution

There are two primary forms of intents you will use.

Explicit Intents have specified a component (via setComponent(ComponentName) or setClass(Context, Class)), which provides the exact class to be run. Often these will not include any other information, simply being a way for an application to launch various internal activities it has as the user interacts with the application. Implicit Intents have not specified a component; instead, they must include enough information for the system to determine which of the available components is best to run for that intent.