Android :: File Downloading With Service In Background
Nov 14, 2010
When I download a file from web in android, then I want to show a progress bar in notification area of status bar through service, but I am not able to do this. How can i do it? I am not able to pass the file length in service. I am giving URL in EditText, and I am clicking Download Button. After Click A class will be called on Click Listener, this class is having a function. In that function I am doing processing or functionality of downloading, Now I want to show the progress bar in Notification Area Through service, but I can not able to do this.
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May 30, 2010
I have a Service that downloads a file from the internet. What I want is for the response (an InputStream in this case) to be handled by a custom handler that can be switched (like a strategy pattern) but I can't figure out how to do this. So basically the User of the API would be able to plug in different handlers for the response, some would parse XML, others might save files etc. I realise I could pass through the activity context and execute the method from this (given some interface) but I don't want to do this obviously, in case the Activity is closed in the meantime while the file is still downloaded.
UPDATE - I just had one idea it will work sort of but has problem if the DownloadRunnable gets changed between executions of the downloads.
The modified Runnable interface
interface DownloadRunnable {
void run(InputStream stream);
}
An enum
public enum ServiceHandler {.......................
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Jun 10, 2010
Luckily I have the "NetCounter" network traffic counter installed, so I monitor my data usage over the 3g/2g network. Recently I've discovered my usage have increased massively. According to the month graph I've jumped from average 8 MB/day to approx 40 MB/day and my habbits haven't changed!This morning when I woke up, and my phone has been idle all night, it had already used 7MB since midnight - without me using it. What kind of a background app/service downloads that much data? According to my netcounter it is almost 99% download and 1% upload.I have a 1gb/month dataplan which should be enough, but something is appearently abusing my Connection , and with 410MB used this month so far, it can't last all month this way.I can see which date more or less the cell usage have increased, but I honestly can't recall which programs I have installed around that point! So before I try randomly uninstalling programs, I would like to hear if there is any way I can see how the network usage is distributed between the apps, so I can find the sinners?
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Jul 30, 2010
I have an array of all the URIs of the images which I am showing in a List. Now I want to run a thread in background which gets this images from web and store them on the SD card. So when I click a particular element in the list instead of fetching from web it should fetch from the SD card in the new activity.
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May 28, 2010
I have been a Iphone guy for a while but I am just sick to death of At&t's service. I was just wondering can you download these apps right to your phone or do you have to download to a computer 1st and can you download them to your Apple Laptop?
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Apr 2, 2010
I am in the process of creating an app that is similar to the build-in SMS app. What I have tried: - running a regular service which worked just fine until android kills the service - using the AlarmManager the make the 5 min. interval call to a service. But I was not able to make this work.
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Jul 15, 2009
I'm trying to develop a service, which needs to be run in background as a low priority task and does some complex processing . I need to gracefully quit my service when their is a resource shortage( like CPU running low on memory). Was there any APIs available to know the CPU resource usage, Objectives of my service is to - 1. Exit service when a high priority application(s) is running and which might need entire CPU resources. 2. Should store my states before onDestroy() of my service is called.
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Sep 15, 2010
it is possible in android to show pop-up dialog from background running service?
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Sep 9, 2009
It seems trivial to use GPS in a background service, but how can you do the same with the accelerometer? Everything I've tried seems to require a context, but a background service doesn't have a context?
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Apr 22, 2010
I like to check my service status, e.g. live or be killed. so, I hope there is a command like "ps -ef " of linux.
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Nov 24, 2009
I wish to use implement Service in my application to display a message on the screen. This service should run while my application is running. But right now, i just want to test the service function and the Service doesn't seem to work well. In the main java file, i call startService(new Intent (this,testing.class)).
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Nov 2, 2010
An activity can use AsyncTask or Handler framework for background work. Both will continue to work even after user has moved away from the activity that started them and the onDestroy for the activity has been called. In other words, an activity is fully capable of doing background work even after its GUI has been shutdown.In this scenario, use of Service for background work seems like redundancy. What does Service bring to the table that an activity can not do?
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Jun 6, 2010
I have to download a file and I'm using this code, which is basically an AsyncTask that is meant to update a progress bar. But, since I don't know what's the file size I've been having to use the spinner progress bar. So, how can I get the file size before start downloading it so that I can use a normal progress bar?
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Oct 22, 2010
I have an app which runs as a background service only. I'l like it to start up when its installed. As its just a background service it doesnt show up on the pane of installed apps. So there is no way for the user to manually start it. I've already regietered for the BOOT_COMPLETED intent which works but I dont want the user to have to power off the phone after the app has been installed, just so as they can start it.
I've looked at the following intents: ACTION_PACKAGE_ADDED/CHANGED/ REPLACED/RESTARTED/INSTALL, ACTION_SCREEN_ON/OFF, ACTION_USER_PRESENT, ACTION_TIME_TICK,
But it doesnt seem that you can register to listen for them from my manifest.
How I can start my background service without a power off/on?
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May 24, 2010
I am trying to call a push notification background service from BroadcastReceiver class, but my application crashes.When I call this service through an Activity it's working, but my goal is to call this service from a BroadcastReceiver.
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Jul 6, 2009
I'm writing an application that consists of a background Service and one or several Activities acting as UI towards this. There will most likely be several different UIs for this service that will installed later on, like custom widgets or UIs. The question is how to solve this in the most efficient way. Is it better to only use Intents for communication between UI and Service (sending control commands with Intents from the UI and listening for Intents from the Service for state and data updates) or should I prefer using IPC communication (AIDL -> Java Stub, binding to the service etc.)?
Since the UI might be started long after the service is started, I would either need to use sticky intents to signal current state, or have a very frequent intent sent by the service if choose to go with the Intent-based design. Which one would be the preferred way in that case? I've read that sticky intents are much more resource consuming than normal intents, but are intents more consuming than IPC directly towards the service? Also, is really an AIDL the right way to allow third-party integration? Intents sounds better, since they are also asynchronous.
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Jun 25, 2010
I'd like to include a feature in my application that would include a running background service that would disable SMS, if certain conditions were met (location for instance). Is there a way I can intercept the user wanting to open any SMS app and block it? Would a Broadcast Receiver be able to do the trick? Maybe a different way to go about this?
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Aug 21, 2010
I am currently writing my first Android application and I keep running into references to background and foreground services. Since I intend on using a service in my application I was hoping to get a clarification between the two and how they are used.
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May 19, 2010
I am using a web service. i have to start that particular service at every 6 hrs interval, automatically . i want to perform this task with alarm manger. but i have no idea.
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Apr 3, 2009
I want run my application in background, with "Service component", If the application is running in background then there should be icon of application, so when user click on icon the application should come in fore ground. Is this possible in Android, anybody having suggestions plz welcome. There is provision of Notification Manager for icon, but it is not reacting to user events. Is there any other way to this.
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Apr 13, 2010
I've tried video recording in the background. But had failed.
Under normal circumstances, the recording works properly. However, if HOME key down-> Home screen or Other Activity is running, recording terminates.
In such a situation, I want to record continuously. I want to record whole process!
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Nov 11, 2009
i am downloading files from web server programatically. after download is complete, i checked the file.the size ,extension and all other parameters are correct but i when i try to play that file in media player it is showing that it is corrupt.
byte[] b = null; InputStream in = null; b = new byte[Integer.parseInt(size)]; // size of the file. in = OpenHttpConnection(URL); in.read(b); in.close();
File folder = new File("/sdcard", "folder");
boolean check = folder.mkdirs();
Log.d("HttpDownload", "check " + check);
File myFile = new File("/sdcard/folder/" + name);
myFile.createNewFile();
OutputStream filoutputStream = new FileOutputStream(myFile);
filoutputStream.write(b);
filoutputStream.flush();
filoutputStream.close();
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Oct 14, 2010
I run a site that offers .pkg files to my users for download to there device. The issue is instead of downloading the .pkg file it just displays the raw code of the .pkg file in the webview. How can I get this to force download to the root of the sd card? Here is what I have
package com.ps3brew.view;
import com.ps3brew.view.R;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;
public class WebViewExample extends Activity {..........................
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Nov 9, 2010
I have been searching for days trying to find solution to my problem. I would like to show a progress bar while downloading a file in Android. I found enough to download the file but have struggled to figure out how to display a progress bar.
Here is my download code:...............
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Mar 19, 2010
I've got the following code:
BufferedInputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(new URL("my url that points to a binary file").openStream(), 1024 * 1024); BufferedOutputStream fos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(downloadFile)); byte buf[] = new byte[1024 * 1024]; int numBytesRead; do { numBytesRead = stream.read(buf); if (numBytesRead > 0) { fos.write(buf, 0, numBytesRead); } } while (numBytesRead > 0);
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Jun 24, 2010
I have a background service and want to listen to clicks on the screen by the user. Is there any standard procedure or experience in doing this?
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Nov 13, 2009
I want to develop a application that continuously running in background as service. And after that if i press any numeric key, it should start an application.
I have developed a service which is running continuously. Is it possible in Android?
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May 4, 2010
Is there a way to access the currently active window belonging to a different process from a background service and be allowed to modify some of its properties such as the transparency?
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Mar 17, 2010
I am aware my issue is against the philosophy of Android, but I have no choice, this application will run on a embedded car gps and I need to bring an activity to prevent from car accident, for example, when it's happen around the user. I have to put other activity on the back and bring my alert pop up without user manipulation like notification on the front. Is there a way to bring manually an activity to the front, by resuming it like when you click on the android task switcher?
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Mar 18, 2010
I am trying to create a simple Android application that has a ActivityList of information, when the application starts, I plan to start a Service that will be constantly calculating the data (it will be changing) and I want the ActivityList to be in sync with the data that the service is calculating for the life of the app. How can I set up my Activity to be listening to the Service? Is this the best way to approach this problem? For example, if you imagine a list of stock prices - the data would be being changed regularly and need to be in sync with the (in my case) Service that is calculating/fetching the data constantly.
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