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Intents have multiple uses on the android platform and this fact makes them inherently confusing. In the single mechanism a variety of uses are implemented and this is only too apparent when you look at the Intent class constructor. When delving into the intents with Craig, he wondered why a nice Intent class hierarchy had not been implement to cleanly segment their uses.

This article addresses the use of Intents for sending and receiving messages in the background, for those circumstances, where you do not wish any impact on the users experience and will usually respond the notification asynchronously.

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