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title: "What is an action?"  
description: "What is an action?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-11-28  
updated: 2020-09-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/22919/what-is-an-action  
category: "android"  
tags: ["android", "android intent"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is an action?

The Intent Sender desires something or doing some task

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

An Action object is an action listener that provides not only action-event handling, but also centralized handling of the state of action-event-firing components such as tool bar buttons, menu items, common buttons, and text fields. The state that an action can handle includes text, icon, mnemonic, enabled, and selected status

### Answer by Anonymous User

The Intent Sender desires something or doing some task


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