Content Provider in Android basic questions
<p>I am having trouble understanding content providers in Android.</p>

<p>Do you use intents to call content providers as well as managed queries?</p>

<p>Also, an activity has an intent filter.  The intent filter has a  element which has a  mimeType attribute.  How does Android know which content provider this mimetype is referring to?<br>
The  tag in the manifest just lists an authority but not the full content_uri.  Further, the content_uri is typically defined in an encapsulated class that seems to only consist of constants but no methods, so I don't see how that links over to the content provider class.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>
