Android :: Getting Service To Communicate With Activity?

Jun 25, 2010

I currently have a Service and an Activity in my application.I currently bind the Service to the activity without using AIDL as the Service and the Activity are in the same application.This allows me to call the methods from the Service within my Activity when I require them, however it doesn't let me call the methods of the Activity from within my Service when I want to.Can anyone comment on what would be the best way to achieve this?I could use Intents but is there an alternative option?I want to have tight communication between the Service and the Activity, I want to be able to call an Activity method from my Service when an event happens.

I now have it working the way I want, however I have come across a problem.My service gets status updates and my Activity is then supposed to react to the update sent on from the Service.The problem is that when I start my activity I get the Dialling Status and then Connected status before the onBind is called and I get the instance of iCallDialogActivity.

I need to be able to use my iCallDialogActivity when I get the Dialling and Connected Status notifications.But this gives me a NullPointer Exception due to it not being created in time when my Activity starts, binding is the first thing I do in my Activities onCreate().Is there a way to make it bind straight away?

Android :: Getting Service to communicate with Activity?


Android :: How Does A Service Communicate With Activity?

Feb 17, 2010

Suppose I have an Activity that's a list. It calls a Service when this Activity starts.The Service will do background stuff download, parse, and fill the list.My question is this: How can the Service communicate with the Activity?How can I call a method in the Activity, from the Service? (I'm new to OOP)

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Android :: Want Activity / Service To Communicate With Intent

Aug 2, 2010

In the Activity I write Intent i=new Intent("IntentServiceTest"); Bundle bundle = new Bundle(); bundle.putString("abc", "def"); i.putExtra("wer", bundle); IntentTest.this.startService(i); Start Service into Service OnCreate method,but I don't know how to do get this Intent in this method.

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Android :: Best Way For Service That Starts Activity To Communicate With It

Feb 16, 2010

I have a service that listens to a socket. When receiving certain input it is to create an activity. When receiving other input, it is to kill this activity. I have struggled for a while to make the service communicate with the activity through AIDL (http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/aidl.html), but this seems to not be effective. I think AIDL is only effective when the process that is to be talked to is a service, not when it is an activity? I would love some directions or suggestions on how to solve my problem.

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Android :: How To Have Android Service Communicate With Activity?

Mar 17, 2010

I'm writing my first Android application and trying to get my head around communication between services and activities. I have a Service that will run in the background and do some gps and time based logging. I will have an Activity that will be used to start and stop the Service.So first, I need to be able to figure out if the Service is running when the Activity is started. There are some other questions here about that, so I think I can figure that out (but feel free to offer advice).My real problem: if the Activity is running and the Service is started, I need a way for the Service to send messages to the Activity. Simple Strings and integers at this point - status messages mostly. The messages will not happen regularly, so I don't think polling the service is a good way to go if there is another way. I only want this communication when the Activity has been started by the user - I don't want to start the Activity from the Service. In other words, if you start the Activity and the Service is running, you will see some status messages in the Activity UI when something interesting happens. If you don't start the Activity, you will not see these messages (they're not that interesting).

It seems like I should be able to determine if the Service is running, and if so, add the Activity as a listener. Then remove the Activity as a listener when the Activity pauses or stops. Is that actually possible? The only way I can figure out to do it is to have the Activity implement Parcelable and build an AIDL file so I can pass it through the Service's remote interface. That seems like overkill though, and I have no idea how the Activity should implement writeToParcel() / readFromParcel().Is there an easier or better way? Thanks for any help.

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Android :: Communicate With A Service From An Application

Aug 25, 2009

i have some problem to communicate with a service from an Android application.The service is in a first package "package com.myService" and the application in another on "package com.myApplication".My service work and start well but my next step is to add an AIDL interface to external applications.I have tried to follow the recomandation described here : http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/aidl.html, but i have still the following error (given in the log service):W/ActivityManager( 568): Unable to start service Intent { action=com.MyApplication.IBootstrapService }: not found

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Android :: Service - Communicate With Activities

May 19, 2010

I'm wondering which is the best way to communicate between a Service and an activity..

Broadcast intent
Callback
others?...

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Android :: Communicate Progress From Local Service

May 16, 2010

An application I'm building uses a local Service for downloading files from the web to the phone's SD card. In this app users can browse lists of books, and read them while online. A user can also download a pdf copy of a book for offline viewing. To handle downloads I'm using a locally bound Service. I do not want this Service to run all the time, only when downloading files. So that the Service can shut itself down when its tasks are complete, I am not binding to the service, rather I'm sending an "enqueue for download" command through the Intent passed to Context.startService.

Books available for download are shown in a list. A user can choose to download a book by clicking on its row in the list. On download, I need to show download progress using a ProgressBar on the actual book list row. I need to also show, on the rows, if a book is enqueued for download, or if its download has completed or failed. The books can be shown in different activities throughout the application--in search, or in the user's list of favorite books, for example. When the books are shown in different places, these are not the same objects, but they are uniquely identified by their bookId...............

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Android :: Communicate Between Applications (service Vs Intents)

Sep 13, 2010

What is the difference between 2 ways of interaction between applications on android:

1. implementing service in app #1 and using it in app #2.
2. handling intentions and posting answer intention.

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Android :: How To Communicate Back To Service From Broadcast Receiver?

Aug 17, 2010

I have a widget which starts a service. The service registers two broadcast receivers. I would like to send back intents from the receivers to the service, so that the service can react.I remember reading (on some blog) that this won't start a new service, but will simply pass the intent to the already running service. Is this correct? Is it a bad way of doing it? Is there a better way?

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Android :: How To Communicate With Embedded Activity?

Jan 30, 2010

In my current project I have a full screen TabActivity. Each tab content is handled by two instances of same ListActivity. Now, I put an extra int in intent to know which data should be displayed.So in onCreate method of my ListActivity, I check the int in extra and I build my query to obtain a SQLLiteCursor.I would like to dynamycally give to this two instances of ListActivity the list of item that should be displayed.I do not know what is the best way to do this. Any idea ?

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Android :: Communicate With A Location Manager Started From Another Activity

Aug 20, 2010

In my app I want to obtain a gps lock and record the coords. But I do not want to lock the device into looking for the gps. The user is to be free to traverse through the app and the different activities within.

So If I call a locationListener in activity A, can I reference it in activities B C and D?

if is was still in activity A I could say something like

A.this.mlocListener.removeMyUpdates();

When I am in activity B how can I reference the LocationListener I set up in Activity A

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Android : Closing Activity Completely / Process Killed By Activity Manager Service

Aug 2, 2010

Whenever the memory needs to be reclaimed, the process is being killed by Activity Manager Service in killPidsForProcess. I have a back button in my activity window on right corner of the title bar.

I want to kill the activity completely on clicking the close button. Can I reuse the same function and will it have any major effect? Please help me out in this.

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Android :: Activity Check Service To Start Another Activity

Sep 10, 2010

I need to made an activity (without layout) that on start check if a service is running. if it is true it starts Activity2, if it false it starts Activity1.

I tried with this code:

CODE:............

Enter code here

But when I check, in the onCreate method, if serviceConnect!=null I receive sometime a NullPointerExcption.

I tried also to insert the operation in the method onCreate in an Async Task:

CODE:............

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Android :: Using Thread In Activity Or In Service?

Jun 12, 2010

In Virgil Dobjanschi's talk, "Developing Android REST client applications" (link here), he said a few things that took me by surprise. Including:
Don't run http queries in threads spawned by your activities. Instead, communicate with a service to do them, and store the information in a ContentProvider.
Use a ContentObserver to be notified of changes.
Always perform long running tasks in a Service, never in your Activity.
Stop your Service when you're done with it.

I understand that he was talking about a REST API, but I'm trying to make it fit with some other ideas I've had for apps. One of APIs I've been using uses long-polling for their chat interface. There is a loop http queries, most of which will time out. This means that, as long as the app hasn't been killed by the OS, or the user hasn't specifically turned off the chat feature, I'll never be done with the Service, and it will stay open forever. This seems less than optimal.

Long question short:
For a chat application that uses long polling to simulate push and immediate response, is it still best practice to use a Service to perform the HTTP queries, and store the information in a ContentProvider?

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Android :: Service Callback To Activity

Jan 13, 2010

Our application will expose a Service that can be called by Activities in other people's applications.In many cases, the parent applications calling Activity may be paused before our Service completes. I am looking for the best way for a Service to communicate back to the calling Activity that may have been paused.These are the known options:

(1) Require calling Activities to have a registerReceiver() with a custom action and broadcast to that from our Service. The only way to secure this registerReceiver() is with a signature-based permission.As our Service communicates with any number of unknown 3rd party apps,we can't sign our Service's parent app with all these unknown certificates. These apps would therefore be exposing an unsecured registerReceiver() on their Activity. Would ideally like to avoid requiring this.

(2) Create a PendingIntent to send results back to the activity and give it to our Service. Our Service would send data to calling Activity's onActivityResult(). Each time the result is delivered, the calling Activity will go through onPause() and onResume() but this should be OK.

(3) The calling Activities could create a Handler. The Activity would then create a Messenger pointing to that Handler and send it to our service. Our Service can then use the Messenger to deliver our message back to the calling Activity.

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Android :: Start Activity From The Service

Sep 3, 2010

I have a launcher activity which gets activated everytime i start the application and a service which complements it. Now as i press the return key from my main activity .Its Ondestroy gets called.Now i have nullify the pointer of the my launcher activity there. now i am listening through the service any event happening on the network after closing the launcher activity thread and if any event occurs i have to relaunch my launcher activity. i have tried intent but doesnot seems to get though it .

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Android :: Start An Activity From A Service

Oct 6, 2010

I have a service (input method) and from within that service I want to start and activity which was declared in the same manifest. The activity maybe running but in the background.

How do i check its presence and bring it to front, or optionally start this.

From what I can gather from other posts, this is about what I need to do:

CODE:..............

I don't knwo which of thest flags pertain to what I need to do. The docs are quite merky, and my random attempt at making this work failed.

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Android :: Start Service Without Using Any Activity

Oct 16, 2009

My application has a background process which continuously waits on a socket for receiving messages and it should be started only once and at the time of application starting.Thus i want to do that background job in a service.

The service should not be started from the activity ,it should be started at the application starting.

How can i define the service,which will be started at the time of application starting?

If at all the service is started from activity.The activity can be destroyed and restarted.when this happens the service also be restarted .

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Android :: How To Start Service From Activity?

Jun 14, 2010

How can I start a service from an Activity ?

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Android :: Start Service From Activity

Feb 25, 2010

In my app i have an activity from which i want to start an Service.

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Android :: Start Activity From Service

Aug 11, 2010

Is it possible to start an Activity from a Service? If yes, how can we achieve this?

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Android :: Calling Activity From Service

Nov 19, 2010

i am writing an app in which i need a background service to call an activity and show some result.

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Android :: Binding Service To Activity

Dec 16, 2009

I am working on an android application, where the activity binds to a local service to perform certain tasks.Now I am binding the service in the OnCreate method of the Activity, after which the activity has to use the service object to invoke the functionality defined in the servicein the OnStart method. The problem here is that once a call "bindservice" has been made, we might not get the serviceobject immediately, so my service object would be null till that time. So i cannot invoke the service functions.So is there a way to determine in the activity that the service has been bound and the service object is valid and could be used now. For reference i'm attaching a code snippet for the same.

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Android :: Activity Service Binding

Mar 13, 2010

Can an Activity be bound to two different Services at the same time or do I have to unbind one Service before binding to the other one?

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Android :: Stopping Other Activity From My Service..

May 6, 2010

I want to stop an Activity that is in some other application from my Applications service. Is there any mechanism to do so?

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Android :: Possible To Close Activity From Service

Aug 8, 2010

Is it possible to close/finish activities in activity stack from a backgorund service.

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Android :: Service Gets Killed - Due To Activity?

Jun 10, 2010

I have a service running in the background. It starts on device boot. Also, I have one activity (that appears in the task launcher) in which I have provided buttons to start and stop the service.

Now, I install the application on the phone and I start the service using this activity (and not on-device boot). As expected the service starts and starts doing its designated task. I no-longer need the activity. So it goes out of sight and may not be required for a long time now.

My question is, now, if the android platform kills this activity, will it kill my service too ? (This is because I see that after few hours, my service is not running anymore.). If this is true, then will the service continue running longer if the service was started on device boot.

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Android :: Kill A Service By Another Activity?

Feb 16, 2010

Activity 1 starts a Service, using the standard Intent. Activity 1 starts Activity 2. Then, Activity 1 gets finished().

Now, there's only Activity 2.

How does Activity 2 kill the Service, since that Intent was generated in Activity 1? I don't want to pass the Intent everywhere...

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Android :: Start Activity From Service

Aug 31, 2010

Android:

CODE:...........

I launched this service from activity

In activity if condition satisfies start

CODE:......................

From my location service mentioned above could not launch activity, how can i get context of current running activity in service class.

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