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Activities facilitate app to app communications. They have the following characteristics: | Activities facilitate app to app communications. They have the following characteristics: | ||
=== Are exclusively user-initiated. === | === Are exclusively user-initiated. === | ||
=== Comprised of four components === | === Comprised of four components === | ||
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** etc... | ** etc... | ||
* Disposition | * Disposition | ||
=== Can be one-way, or round trip === | === Can be one-way, or round trip === | ||
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In this instance, the Activity returns the user to the originating app, along with an object. | In this instance, the Activity returns the user to the originating app, along with an object. | ||
=== Are tracked by OS === | |||
The system maintains a record ''(via a central registry in Activities API?)'' of which apps support which Actions & Types, and uses this record to present to populate the list of available handler apps when the user selects an Action. | The system maintains a record ''(via a central registry in Activities API?)'' of which apps support which Actions & Types, and uses this record to present to populate the list of available handler apps when the user selects an Action. | ||