In android development, what is an intent, I have read about it but I just dont understant?

I have some java experience from university and would like to become an android developer. Can someone, in simple terms, please explain what an intent is in android development. I just dont understand, possibly some example may clear things up.



Thanks everyone.In android development, what is an intent, I have read about it but I just dont understant?
From a quick squint at the documentation, it's somewhere between what other systems might call a remote procedure call and a message. It's a way of passing a request to another process when that process isn't necessarily running yet.