My activity bind a service. I want to call the service's function in activity's onStart/onCreate function, but it doesn't work. The service started sunless but the connection is null. When I just call the service's function in other function (onClick for example),
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I have an Activity (A) and a Service (S) which gets started by A like this:
Intent i = new Intent();
i.putExtra("updateInterval", 10);
i.setClassName("com.blah", "com.blah.S");
startService(i);
A have a function like this one in A: public void someInfoArrived(Info i) Now I want to call A.someInfoArrived(i) from within S. Intent.putExtra has no version where I could pass an Object reference etc.
In the 1.6 API, is there a way to ensure that the onStart() method of a Service is called after the service is killed due to memory pressure?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIn the 1.6 API, is there a way to ensure that the onStart() method of a Service is called after the service is killed due to memory pressure? From the logs, it seems that the "process" that the service belongs to is restarted, but the service itself is not. I have placed a Log.d() call in the onStart() method, and this is not reached.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have noticed that if my background service crashes the system will automatically restart the service after 5 seconds. This is great, but I have noticed that only the onCreate method gets called and not the onStart method. Does this mean the service is properly restarted or do I need to do something special in the onCreate method to make sure it is? I did have my initialisation logic in the onCreate method and my starting service logic in the onStart method but it looks like it will all have to be in the onCreate method.
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My SharedPreferences contains a list of sounds that have been previously selected, as a comma delimited string of list indices. Because the list appears to have no children in onStart, my attempts to set items as checked fails.
On the good side, once the list is rendered, I can select entries and hit Back, and my selection is stored to SharedPreferences correctly.
How can I load my previous selection into the list? Should I be using something else here?
In the spirit of open source. here's my code:
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I got my hands on Android which is really fun. But at some point I don't seem to understand the concept. I've got a Main class which reads like this:
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In the onCreate(...) I set the layout to setContentView(R.layout.main); and add an OnTouchEvent Listener to the sole View in main.xml: myView.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {@Override public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event){...
As you can see I also implemented a SensorEventListener which is used if required. All works fine so far.
But my problem is this (at this point my misunderstanding kicks in): whenever I rotate the device the onCreate(), onStart() etc. methods are called, causing my app to act as if it just started. Furthermore, I feel unable to implement an onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) { ... } Listener.
Can anyone please explain where my error in reasoning is? I am working on a tiny app which is more or less done, except for the just mentioned bug(s). Maybe I got it all wrong but it does what it is supposed to do (i.e. sending touch positions and accelerometer data over the network via UDP).
can u tell me how to call a java script method from android activity...
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a service that needs to hold a persistent TCP connection, think IM. I'm reluctant to use setForeground() - the service being down temporarily isn't that big a deal, and I am assume I can trust that I'll be run again once memory is available, correct? The problem here is this. The service was started via startService() before being killed. However, when it is restarted, only onCreate() is executed. This makes it hard to continue, because starting work onCreate() means I can't even bind to the service (to say query it's status) without it doing so. Is this a bug or per design? What is the status of the service after it is being restarted? Is it consider "started" by the system, i.e. waiting for a call to stopService()?
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I have the following:
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And callProfileDialog() is just:
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ProfileDialog.class returns a String from an input box. If the result returned is RESULT_CANCELED then I restart the activity.
The problem I'm having is that when the program starts, the screen is just black. If I hit the Back button a RESULT_CANCELED is returned then the initial activity shows as well as the floating activity (since it recalled itself when it got a RESULT_CANCELED). Why can't I get the activities show by calling ProfileDialog.class from onStart()? I got the same result when I called it at the end of onCreate() which is way I switch over to use onStart().
I have also tried the following:
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But this doesn't work either. It all works fine once I hit the back button but without doing that, it's all black.
In the Android Application Fundamentals it says that after the call to the onStart()-method of the activity lifecycle either the callback method Resume() or onStop() is called. In case of an "normal" Start of an activity the system calls onCreate(), onStart(), onResume().But does somebody know an example where onStart() - onStop() are executed one after another?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI create a WebView object in the OnCreate function. Now I need to be able to pass this same object to other functions in the code, such as the onOptionsItemSelected function. I currently have it where I just create a new WebView object in each function where I need it, but this slows down the code since it has to recreate it and such.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to call methods of a Activity from service. I am running a thread from a service and i listening to some external event from that thread. I am not able to call methods from that thread. Is there any way to call methods from a thread.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a back ground service running.I have a client which interacts with service.
When the client requests for some operation, the service performs it and it should send the result back to the activity(client).
I know how to invoke the service methods in activity and using call backs we can achive wat I wan to do. But I am not able to understa the call back mechanism and code example provided in Api demos(remoteservice).
I want to know if it is possible to call an activity through background service in android like..
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View 1 Replies View RelatedMy application after an update needs to fill its ContentProvider with some data found on the server.
I found that starting a service from the ContentProvider.onCreate() method works but I'm not sure if it is a good idea or if it works randomly.
I don't know the initialization of an application in android. Are the services always already available before the content provider is created?
I want to know what es the best place in an Activity to bind to a service? I saw examples doing it in onResume() and also in onCreate(). I was asking myself if it is not a problem putting it into onCreate(), cause in onPause() i will do a unbind to the service, so i dont get a serviceConnectionLeak, if i leave the activity. Now if i press the Home-Button and then switching to the HomeScreen, the Activity will unbind from the service, when i go back to the Activity from the Taskmanager, then onCreate() will not be called and if the Code is trying to access a function from the service i will get a null-pointer exception. If i bind and unbind only in onResume() and onPause() i dont have this problem.
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startActivity(new Intent(Parent.this, Child.class)); And on the child, I have this code on the onCreate function (the if contains more than just true, of course): public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); if (true) { AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); builder.setPositiveButton("OK", null); builder.setTitle("Error"); builder.setMessage("Connection error, please try later.") .show(); finishActivity(0); return;}}
Why is the activity not closing? I get the alert box, but then I have to tap the "back" button to go back.
I understand that Android Activities have specific lifecycles and that onCreate should be overridden and used for initialization, but what exactly happens in the constructor? Are there any cases when you could/should override the Activity constructor as well, or should you never touch it?
I'm assuming that the constructor should never be used because references to Activities aren't cleaned up entirely (thus hampering the garbage collector) and that onDestroy is there for that purpose. Is this correct?
I know that network activity and expensive operations should not be done on the ui thread, but what about database activity?
I have an activity that, when started, I query an sqlite database and dynamically populate rows in a tablelayout with an inflator. I do this all in the oncreate() method. Should this be done in a separate thread?
How to call Activity's onCreate() method each time it starts?
Only first time when installed on device it calls onCreate method.
Android will call onCreate() of my activity whenever it is launched.
In the onCreate() of my activity can I tell what intent launches my activity?
As you can see, I first create a webview. Then, I want it to immediately disappear. Then, I want the Listview to come up. But the problem is, I can't do Listview if I don't do ListActivity but then I can't do Activity. Code...
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Which onCreate gets executed first? The child's or parent's?
There is a particular variable I am setting in the Child activity's onCreate method, and right now, it looks like it takes a while to get to the Child activity's onCreate, and so the methods in the Parent are reporting an empty variable. Whereas when I make the Parent sleep for a while, it reports the correct variable.
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So, basically, even after the Parent starts the Child, it still returns "Parent Value", but when I have the thread sleep, it return "Child Value".
I've been experimenting with orientation change and have seen a strange behavior (at least to my opinion) when I change the orientation from landscape to portrait. To make the explanation more concrete let's consider the following super-simple code:
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I put breakpoints at lines 9 and 15 and start the emulator in debug mode. The application starts and hits the breakpoint at line 9; so far so good. Then I press Ctrl+F11 to change the orientation from portrait to landscape. The debugger stops first at line 15 and then line 9. Everyhting normal so far. I hit once again Ctrl+F11 to change the orientation from landscape to portrait and some mumbo-jumbo starts happening. Here is the sequence of function calls I observe: 1.onDestroy() 2.onCreate() 3.onDestroy() 4.onCreate()
I really fail to understand why the platform needs to make the calls "2.onCreate()" and "3.onDestroy()". Can anyone explain why this is happening? At least I don't find it convenient because I need to implement more logic, because the extra calls "2.onCreate()" and "3.onDestroy()" cause side effects in my case. However, it would be interesting to know why these extra calls are taking place.
I have a need to capture some user input when an activity opens for the first time. I'm hoping to give the user a list of options to select from, which will be pulled in dynamically. I'll then store the selected value locally for future use. I'm not finding a way to do what I'm after and was wondering if anyone has run into this before and how they solved it.
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I am encountering an exception in the onCreate method of an activity.
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The onCreate method is as below.
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The layout view XML is as below.
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I've already changed the ID of the ExpandableListView to "list". But it is not effective.
I launch my TestWebView activity. After my web page is loaded, I put the app in the background by pressing the Home key. Then I bring the TestWebActivity back to the foreground. Unexpectedly, TestWebView's onCreate() is called when I bring the activity to the foreground. But onDestroy is never called. This same thing happens every time I tested. It appears the old TestWebView was not completely killed so there are possibly duplicate web clients running.
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