What is Pending Intent?

Question

I am newbie to Android. I read the Android documents. Can anyone tell me what "Pending Intent" is?

Answer 1

A Pending Intent is a token you give to some app to perform an action on your apps' behalf irrespective of whether your application process is alive or not.

I think the documentation is sufficiently detailed: Pending Intent docs.

Just think of use-cases for PIs like (Broadcasting Intents, scheduling alarms) and the documentation will become clearer and meaningful.