<action android:name="string" />
- contained in:
<intent-filter>- description:
- Adds an action to an intent filter.An
<intent-filter>element must contain one or more<action>elements. If it doesn‘t contain any, noIntent objects will get through the filter. See Intents and Intent Filters for details on intent filters and the role of actionspecifications within a filter. - attributes:
android:name- The name of the action. Some standard actions are defined in the
Intentclass asACTION_stringconstants. To assign one of these actions to this attribute, prepend "android.intent.action." to thestringthat followsACTION_.For example, forACTION_MAIN, use "android.intent.action.MAIN"and forACTION_WEB_SEARCH, use "android.intent.action.WEB_SEARCH".For actions you define, it‘s best to use the package name as a prefix toensure uniqueness. For example, a
TRANSMOGRIFYaction might be specified as follows:<action android:name="com.example.project.TRANSMOGRIFY" />
- introduced in:
- API Level 1
- see also:
<intent-filter>
