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am: Start an activity and pass [d]ata to it.
$ am start -a ${android-intent-action-VIEW} -d ${tel:123}
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The given command is used to start an activity in Android to view a specific data. Here's the breakdown of the command:
amis a command-line tool in Android that stands for Activity Manager, which manages the lifecycle of all activities in an Android application.startis an argument that tells theamcommand to start a new activity.-ais an option that specifies the action to be performed by the activity that will be started.${android-intent-action-VIEW}is a placeholder for the actual value of the action. In this case, it should be replaced with the constantandroid.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEWwhich represents the action of viewing data.-dis an option that specifies the data (URI) to be passed to the activity.${tel:123}is a placeholder for the actual value of the data. In this case, it should be replaced with a telephone number, such astel:123, to specify that the activity should view a phone number.
All together, the command am start -a ${android-intent-action-VIEW} -d ${tel:123} would start an activity with the action to view data and the data being a telephone number (in this case, 123).
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.