Where is a list of available intents in Android?

Question

Hi all,

I'm starting to learn how to develop apps for Android, and I'm having some issues with intents--it just doesn't seem like they're documented at all. All I want to do is send the user to the video recorder, where they record a video, and the video information is returned to my app. I know this is possible, as I've seen it in other apps, but it seems like the intent is undocumented (or I'm just not completely understanding how intents work).

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

In general, the Android developer docs are a good place to look for this kind of thing: there's a list of common intent actions in the Intent class reference. For recording video, check out the ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE intent action defined by the Media provider.

Answer 2

You might want to check out OpenIntents

Answer 3

Thanks I82Much! I'm new to all of this and it is a bit overwhelming.