I have to make other developers to be able to connect to my service, but my AIDL imports my classes. I don't want to give them the source code of the service, just the APK and some kind of a stub file (java, jar?). How can I give them something - "the glue" - which makes them to use the classes in my AIDL and using the service akp without getting the sources of the service?
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I have a service that regularly queries a web server for new messages. The service stores the new messages in an arrayList. These messages are implemented using a custom class, storing all kinds of metadata (strings and longs).
An activity then connects to this service to retrieve those messages and display them to the user.
I have an .aidl file that describes the interface that the service exposes.
CODE:..........
The Message class extends the Parcelable class which should allow for the IPC transfer.
The problem is this: Eclipse gives me an error saying that the type of List<Message> is unknown. Any imports are marked as invalid.
This is my aidl file.
CODE:.................
I have written an application in eclipse to run on android emulator but the application is not deploying on emulator and it says Failed to load properties file for project helloworld. in the error report it says An exception for stack trace is not available. I am not able to understand what to do as i am new to android. Please help me to find d sol for this problem.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWe are investigating the possibilities to package & deploy platform UI extensions which can contain both Java code and resources - which then can be (re-)used by applications using <uses-library> tag in the AndroidManifest.xml. One solution which has been discussed was to use the aapt -x option together with the new --custom-package option introduced in November to generate unique resource identifiers for the shared resource package. Then, just as the <uses-library> information in the manifest file would bootstrap the class loader with the listed extension packages, it would add these packages to the asset manager as well - allowing the asset manager to locate and load the extension resources. (This would require a platform extension.)If this is a way forward - using the 8 package bits in the resource identifiers? This solution would probably work initially for one vendor since the allocation of unique package identifiers would be an internal issue, but if extension packages where to be exchanged within the android community there would be a high risk of packages using the same identifiers.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am getting below error when I try to upload apk file with AVD version Level2. Can't dispatch DDM chunk 46454154: no handler defined
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know the equivalent of these imports from J2ME to Android?
import javax.microedition.io.Connector; import javax.microedition.io.HttpConnection; import javax.microedition.io.SocketConnection; import javax.microedition.io.StreamConnection;
Also, I needed to import midpapi20.jar but I don't want to use packages outside Android into my app -- would I be able to find most of the related packages in Android libs?
I have developed an App that talks to a set of web services. Because the App is used in different environments and for different purposes, I would like to provide a way to automatically deploy a configuration alongside the App that contains the settings for the environment (url of the locally hosted web services for example) and App settings (such as a timer period for talking to the web services). It would be tedious to have a UI for this and have to do it on every device post installation. Things I have tried and why they didn't meet my requirements:
*Raw Resource: If I unzip the apk and change the settings file, it becomes invalid as I need to resign the apk.
*Reading straight from the apk with ZipFile/ZipEntry: Device complains upon installation that the config file is not signed.
*PreferencesActivity: Requires device side UI; It would be tedious to have a UI for this and have to do it on every device post installation.
First off; I know the implementation of this should be discussed on the framework list, but I'm putting this idea out on here to see if there is a need for it. I've recently worked on a project where the designer wanted a 2 x 3 grid of icons as the apps "home" page. This threw up an interesting situation because to do this using the best resolution possible it seems we would either need to copy the actual icons into multiple directories, or create a resource alias file for each icon, neither of which is ideal (think 30+ icons across the app which needed duplicating). What I'm wondering is if there is a need for a single file which contains all of the resources to use within another resource directory. To give you an idea of the problem I'll scale it down to 3 icons which have mdpi and hdpi variants;
drawables/icon1.png drawables/icon2.png drawables/icon3.png drawables-hdpi/icon1.png drawables-hdpi/icon2.png drawables-hdpi/icon3.png
As the Dell Streak is a WVGA device that identifies itself as a large- mdpi device we wanted to use the -hdpi icons for it, but this would result in three new files containing resource aliases; drawables-large-mdpi/icon1.xml drawables-large-mdpi/icon2.xml drawables-large-mdpi/icon3.xml What I'm wondering is should this be a single file which contains a list of all the imports. For example;
drawables-large-mdpi/imports.xml which contains;.......
Does android resource files for values and layouts have any way to import other xml files. This is a good approach for products, where there is a core module and many sub modules. The Submodule may also use some of the core defined key value pairs etc. Also, in case with a module, if the view is very complex.. better to manage them as different xml's. Are there any other approach to handle this.. by way R inheritance etc.. I suppose only one R supported per application.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm working on nifty enhancements to an Android app and I've cloned its source from android.git.kernel.org. How does one deal with imports not found, for example:
import android.content.entity*
import android.os.ServiceManager
import com.google.android.collect.*
import com.android.internal.*
etc. This is with a checkout of tag Android-2.1_r1 Android2.1-update1 with ADK 0.9.7.v20100514. I'm not seeing them in the platform source - maybe I'm looking the wrong way? I spose the answer is a library or something, but it's my first time in.
Since I got my Droid X a few days ago I have been plagued by contact syncing issues and most notably how they relate to the facebook apps, both the Motorola Facebook and the Android market facebook. My suspicion is that these bugs are behind the comic sluggishness of my brand new phone. Here are the bugs I've discovered in the hopes that someone has a solution for me, or that the developers will catch on.
Motorola Facebook Issues:
This app imports ALL of your facebook friends to your contacts. There is no way to turn this off. I have over 1,000 facebook friends, most of whom I will never contact on the phone. This is exceedingly annoying. In reality I have about 300 contacts that I actually want in my phone which I imported easily from google. The Motorola facebook app did seem to sync up with these contacts just fine adding pictures, emails etc. Only problem was it brought everyone else along with it.
Market Facebook Issues:
- Despite setting my sync preferences to only syncing data to existing contacts, Facebook will still add anybody with a phone number attached to their facebook account to "Phone Contacts." "Phone Contacts" are different from "All Contacts" (bizarre), so it's not quite as bad as the Motorola FB importing everyone of my fb friends (phone # or not) to "All contacts", but it's still very, very annoying.
- The app will not sync pictures to contacts.
- The app creates dozens and dozens (in my case 43) "linked profiles" to each of my contacts. I am guessing this is what is causing the ridiculous sluggishness of my phone.
Conclusions:
- I am going to fully delete the Market FB app from my phone along with the data it added to my contacts.
- Since I really love having pics/fb info attached to my contacts, I am going to try using the Moto FB app by itself and just live with the 1000 or so contacts. This will be the first time I am trying the moto app w/o the market app. I am hoping this solves the sluggishness which I suspect has to do with the "linked profiles" created by the Market FB app.
Currently my phone is in the process of deleting the market FB app which is taking FOREVER. I will keep you all posted. And I'd love to hear if anyone else is having similar problems.
I create an aidl file named mp3PlayerInterface.aidl. Then I try to use the aidl tool to parsing the aidl-file to java-file. The error"mp3PlayerInterface should be declared in a file called com mp3playermp3PlayerI nterface.aidl."happened no matter use the aidl-command derectly or eclipse.
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but get errors...
I downgraded to Eclipse 3.5, and the following still doesn't happen when I build a project in Eclipse:
1. .aidl files don't get processed (at all).
2. R.java isn't generated.
Used to work. What the heck?
I get the android source. How can I build the aidl too that is part of android (the one which generates java file from an aidl file)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm unable to find the AIDL tool in my OSX install. My tools directory does not have AIDL, but it has everything else (Adb, android, ddms, etc). I've tried opening the SDK and AVD manager and reinstalling the Android SDK Tools Rev 7, no luck. Any idea on how I can get a hold of the tool? Is there a separate download I can use?
Under what circumstances would using AIDL to define a service interface be the correct decision (rather than just creating an extension to the service class)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've created a service that is meant to communicated to an activity using aidl's and callback functions. I got it working just fine with my test activity in the same package. But I was wanting to expose this service to different activities running in a completely different .apk file. Is it possible to accomplish this? What does the separate package need to bind to my service and register the callbacks? Or am I going about this completely wrong and should I try a different method for conveying information back and forth between two packages.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am curious whether the AIDL only serves for inter-process communication between several Android apps on the same device, or AIDL provides much wider functionality. Let's say I have a Java application running on some server, is it possible to remotely call methods on that server through AIDL from an Android phone?If yes, do I need some extra libraries on the server-side Java application?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using Eclipse with ADT to develop my project, but for some reason my AIDL files are not getting compiled into Java files. Is there a way to explicitly invoked the conversion of my AIDL files?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have problems with the following: I want to create to applications. One with a Android service and one with a Activity that will use functions on the Service. Before I splitted this in to applications I got everything working in one application. I can call functions (that are definned in the aidl - file) on the service without problems.
Now the problems coms. I splitted the application into two parts, a Service application and Gui application. The bindins to the service (in the gui application) works and I see that the service is getting created. Then in the onServiceConnected function of the ServiceConnection class I created the following:
mService = IMyService.Stub.asInterface(service);
And this gives me the following exception:
03-16 13:53:05.549: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(881): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: MyPackage.IMyService$Stub
It looks like he can't find the Stub class in IMyService. But the Stub is part of the java file generated out of the aidl-file. Why I get this exception or how I can resolve this?
I am curious about the data types that AIDL can support.
The document ( http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/aidl.html ) says, AIDL can support String, List, Map, etc. But to me, the Map seems that it is not the member of them.
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I have created a service which exposes few AIDL defined interfaces. I want to access this Service from an application with different package. I have no clue how to achieve this. I want to see an example on this.
Unfortunately all examples I see has client application in the Service package it self:(
Could you please share some sample/example code on this?
I have created some aidl files for IPC in my Android project.
They compile and run file however in the generated .java files I am getting warnings of un-used imports as follows:
The import android.os.Binder is never used EngineInterface.java/gen/com//phone/engine line 10 Java Problem
Now I presume that they are there for a reason and since the generated file is not supposed to be modified that adding a suppress warning is not a good idea?
So how do I get rid of the warnings? I know they can be left and it doesn't affect the running of the project but I would like a clean as possible project so if its at all possible to remove this errors I would like to know how to do it.
This may sound stpid, for some reason I can't find anywhere on Eclipse that lets me generate blank .aidl file. does anyone know how?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to add an aidl file in android framework so i can import it in two applications(one binds remotely to the other).How can i do that?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am developing an application using services and Remote interface. I have a question about passing the reference of my Remote interface throughout Activities. In my first Activity, I bind my service with my activity, in order to get a reference to my interface I use
private ServiceConnection mConnection = new ServiceConnection() {
@Override
public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName arg0, IBinder service) {
x = X.Stub.asInterface(service);
}
@Override
public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
};
x being the reference to my interface. Now I would like to access this interface from another activity, I see two ways to do it but I don't know which one is the "proper" way to do it: passing x with my intent when I call the new Activity redo this.bindService(new Intent(y.this,z.class), mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE); in the onCreate() of my new Activity
We're planning to export an application layer AIDL interface. What are some best practices with regards for managing version compatibility? Does Android provide any version-related mechanisms for AIDL interfaces?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI didn't find a sufficient answer to my problem in any posts, if there already is one, please excuse and point me to it, thanks. I made 2 projects. project 1 hast an activity that binds to a service from project 2 on a button click (all just for testing).
How can I make project 1 know (import) my TestInterface (from TestInterface.aidl out of project 2) for usage in: "TestInterface mService = (TestInterface) TestInterface.Stub.asInterface(service);"
without adding project 2 to the build path, because if I'd have an installed service without the project code, I couldn't do it this way, too...?? I read in one thread that TestInterface.aidl should just be added to project 1, too, but if I do this, in DDMS enforceInterface() complains and seems to just see/use the interface from project 1 and it doesn't work.
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