Starting Your Own Activity
To start an activity, we call startActivity() on some Context, typically on our Activity or a Context obtained from a View.
To identify what activity to start, we pass an Intent object to startActivity(). When starting an activity from your own project, the particular type of Intent that we will use is an “explicit” Intent. This is where we identify the specific class that implements the activity that we want to start.
The explicit form of the Intent constructor takes two parameters:
- A
Context, typically the activity that is asking to start another activity - A Java
Classobject
That second parameter type means that in Kotlin, you will use ::class.java, rather than just ::class, to get to the proper object.
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