Can Intents/Intent Filters be used for more mundane tasks?
<p>I have a pretty good understanding of what Intents and Intent Filters can do, but I was wondering if it would be possible to use them to perform something a bit more mundane, like maybe just monitoring a change in a variable value.</p>

<p>This is unfortunately a bit of a noob question, and it is probably just my inexperience with Java and Android so far. The task I'm trying to accomplish is really just to have a method that is added to the lifecycle that can detect a simple change and react without having to add a method call to the end of every user triggered action. I've thought of adding a game-like thread with an infinite loop that calls a method repeated on a slight delay... but it seems like that would be overkill.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot,
Jeremiah</p>
