This is the scenario:
1 user has a main activity used for ii.
2 program needs to communicate with peers and keep connection and wait for messages
3 when a message comes it is shown in the main activity. so the question is should I use a service for the communication and what type of service? and also should I use Aspects in the service in order to keep my ii responsive and why?
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The structure of my application is as follow: - ListActivity (TunnelDroid), once the user presses a listitem it will start a Service. The ListActivity is binded to the service for intra-process communication
- Service (TunnelManagerService): running in the background. This service will add a (permanent) Notification in the statusbar. Using a Handler I sometimes need to communicate with the ListActivity (to show GUI Dialogs)
- Notification: Once this notification is clicked it should open the ListActivity.
To add the action when the user touches the notification I use the following code: notificationIntent.setClassName("net.sourceforge.tunneldroid","net.sourceforge.tunneldroid.TunnelDroid"); Then I use the intent to create the notification.
Unfortunately a new Intent is opened. When I press the back button the original ListActivity is shown. So I have two instances of my same class/list.
How could I make sure the original ListActivity is opened when the user touches the Notification?
It's OK for me if the original ListActivity was previously destroyed, but I cannot have two instances. The problem is that the Handler in the Service has a reference to the ListActivity (PARENT_ACTIVITY), so if another instance is created I have invalid references. I could overwrite the PARENT_ACTIVITY, but then when the user presses the back button I have an instance with no correct link to my Service resulting in a crash/nullpointer.
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Querying the process from the Activity is no big deal. But I want the process to notify the Activity on events. The idea behind it is this: the service runs independently from the actual app. It queries a webserver periodically. If a new task is found on the webserver the process should notify the activity.
I found this thread over at AndDev.org but it doesn't seem to work for me. I've been messing around with BroadcastReceiver. I've implemented an interface which should notify the Activity but the problem is that the listener is always null since the Broadcast from the process is done via Intent, hence the class that extends BroadcastReceiver will be newly instantiated.
How can I establish a 2-way communication? This has to be possible.
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There I noticed that background will only change if the even is processed by the list. For example if I set <item android:state_selected="true" android:drawable="@drawable/selected"/> then when I press on the head - the background of both elements (head and body) will change, however when I press on body - nothing. So to summarize my question.how do I change background of the child element in the list item if I assign custom onClick handler to it?
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