I am new in Android. I encounter the following situation, I have a background running service, which will get a keep-updating string from a webpage, I need to show this keep-updating string in my UI through Activity, since this string is get from service, I am wondering, How can the service pass the string to Activity so that activity can render the string on UI.
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I have a strange issue. I am using KSOAP2 to create a soap request to a .net webservice. I do this in a few other places and everything works fine. The webservice basically queries a data base and takes the values from the data reader and creates a string. This string is then returned. When I run the webservice on my local machine(Without using android) it works fine. When I run it from the webserver (still not android) it works fine. When I call it from my phone however the line: String hazards = (String)envelope.getResponse().toString () ; //Get response from .net Web service Simply is filled with anyType{}. Now if I go to the webservice and I manually type in the contents from the database to represent what the string concatenation should be it works perfectly. The line: String hazards = (String)envelope.getResponse().toString(); //Get response from .net Web service Now returns the string value i need. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening or know a better place to ask this question?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an application with contains multiple activities. The main activity will start the others ( use startActivity() ) depends on user event, when an activity close, it calls finish() and return back to main activity. It appears to behavior like that.
However, the "problem" I see is main activity's onCreate function is called every time. I think the the main activity should be placed in the activity stack and simply push to front when others exit, therefore only onResume, onStart are called. Is there some flag I need to set or I misunderstand the activity behaviro?
In child activity, besides calling finish() or startActivity for main activity, what is other way to move main activity to front?
i seem to have a classic task, yet i can't find any examples on how to do it.i want to download something. well i call a web service and get a response but its pretty much the same.in order to do this i have an activity that starts a service that spawns a thread that does the job.now i would like to use the data i got in the activity that started the service.(i assume that starting another activity to handle the job of displaying the result would be simple)my problem is how does the service notify an activity (the one that started it or another one) of something.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOn Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Ravi Grandhi <grk.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > How to pass a String from an activity to a service?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy application supports twitter and needs to open browser for OAuth. When the user clicks the Share on Twitter button, the main activity will create another subactivity (TwitterActivity) to handle twitter authentication issues. Here is a flow graph showing how activities are invoked currently. Main is short for MainActivity and Twit for Twitter Activity. startActivity() OAuth intent OAuth callback finish()Main ---------------> Twit ------------> Browser --------------> Twit --------> Browser As you may notice, after the TwitterActivity calls finish() to stop, it will now return back to MainActivity, but Browser instead. How can I make it return back to MainActivity?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy MAIN activity is spawning a child activity that contains a ListView. While this ListView is being populated (through an AsyncTask), an indeterminate progress bar is shown.However, assuming that I am an impatient user and I press the BACK button, the progress bar is cancelled but I am left with a blank screen. I have to press BACK one more time to go back to the MAIN activity.I would like the app to go back directly to the MAIN activity by pressing BACK only once. Can somebody point me in the right direction? I am thinking I should call finish() somewhere but I don't know where to put it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedUsually, I putExtra inside an Intent to transfer stuff between Activities. But it seems like I can't do this with a Service? Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras(); That doesn't work for a android Service. How do I send a string from an Activity to a Service then?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a way that a Service can report back to the calling activity when the Service has reached a particular stage of processing? Consider a music player activity that initiates the actual music playing in the background as an Android Service. I want to detect and inform the Activity when the Service has reached the Mediaplayer's onPrepared. Is there a way that the Service can tell the calling Activity when the MediaPlayer's onPrepared is called, to let the Activity know that the audio is prepared and ready to play?I am basically looking to see if there is work around, rather than having a thread in the activity, pinging constantly to check if the Service has reached onPrepared.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am a bit new to Android. What I need to do is send data back and forth between an activity and a service locally. The information sent is sensitive and must not be able to be picked up by other apps. This excludes using broadcast and the onBind() function if I understand things correctly? So the activity needs to send some string parameters to the service. Also it somehow needs to tell the service which activity started it so the service can reply to the correct class since many different activities will use this service.
Once the service has fetched the information via a http request it is suppose to send that data (just a long string which will later be parsed) back to the activity that started it. How do I go about doing this? Using static variables/functions is not an option since again many actives will be using this service. Sure it would be possible to use a static array to hold the classes but that just seems ugly. It's only possible to send simple variables (not objects) via the intent? There must be a better way to do this.
I need to develop an application with downloads the data at the background and update about the progress in the front.
I guess this can be achieved using services and activity and passing data in between the. But, what I need to do is even if I hit back button and then start the activity again. It should check if the service is running or not. If service is not running it should start one else it should display the data from running service.
Something like music player where music is played by a service at a background and activity displays the information. Even on browsing through other activities of the application or hitting back, state of the music player is maintained.
Given that scripting is not natively supported in Android and wrapping libraries like javax.script.ScriptEngine into your app will make it too large, is it possible to send a javascript string to an invisible WebView and have it evaluate the string and return you the results (another string)?
I want to go this route because I want to save all my scripts to disk so my app can remain small.
Given that scripting is not natively supported in Android and wrapping libraries like javax.script.ScriptEngine into your app will make it too large, is it possible to send a javascript string to an invisible WebView and have it evaluate the string and return you the results (another string)? I want to go this route because I want to save all my scripts to disk so my app can remain small. edit I need Java code to evaluate javascript strings not the other way around. addJavascriptInterface() doesn't help.
View 2 Replies View RelatedExperts: My MainActivity launches a SubActivity by calling: startActivityForResult(intent, REQ_CODE); The SubActivity shows a dialog that has two buttons: Yes, No For the dialog, I've the following code: public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {/* User clicked OK */setResult(DialogInterface. BUTTON_POSITIVE) ;finish();
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a main screen with buttons to launch other subactivities. I have to press back button each time to go back to the main screen of my application. How do I finish a child activity and automatically return from the caller?
View 5 Replies View Relatedfirst.java String[] items={"one","two"}; Bundle map = new Bundle(); map.putStringArray ("link",items); Intent myintent = new Intent(view.getContext(),two.class); myintent. put Extras (map) ;startActivityForResult(myintent,0); second.java Bundle map=this. get Intent() .getExtras(); String links=map.getString("link"); tell me that how can i get the two string values from one activity to another one. such as links[0]="one"; and links[1] ="two";
View 2 Replies View Relatedif the service dies, and i know it can during request processing, it's an issue for me, first i've seen it, the process wont die until the net request returns (then the thread dies gracefully), unless kill -9 is used on the process... then i'm not sure what android does with the connections. I'm not sure what's the approach i should take here.(it will be true though even if this was a local thread and not a service)if i want the service to listen on a callback and call it once the network processing is done, i'm in a problem, no instances can be passed on using Intents.
So i need some other solutions, all the ones i though of sounds bad to me: A. use IBinder to get instance of the network service class then i can call one of it's methods and pass on an instance, this will work since they all run in the same process, BUT requires me to use Async way to get a Network instance which is not so suitable for me. B. Use static member in the Service i can access, then what to i need the service for ?. use intent to send parameters only to the service, the service will compose a Request out of it and put it in the queue, then once done will send a response using intent which will encapsulate the response (which might be long!) and will also contain the name of the calling class as a string so all the Receivers will know if it's for them or not - BIG overhead of encapsulating data in Intent and search in all the receivers for the right one to get the response.I don't want to use the service as a local running simple thread since i'm afraid if i'll run it in the root activity i will have to use static container so it will be visible in each activity and if the root will be destroyed for some reason it will take all the service with it, even if i start new task and the process is still alive.Anyone got some nice ideas on how to approach this thing ?
My web service is returning quite a bit of data, so i'm storing it in an arraylist and returning that to my application. I don't know whether or not this is the preferred method or not. When the arraylist is returned and displayed in my application, it also displays the arraylists "anyType" section. I'm new to this whole process so i'm sure i'm missing something somewhere or going about this incorrectly. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
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View 1 Replies View Relatedi am trying to send a json string from my android client to my .net Rest service...
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://myURL");
JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
json.put("name", "i am sample");
StringEntity str = new StringEntity(json.toString());
str.setContentType("application/json; charset=utf-8");
str.setContentEncoding(new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE,"application/json; charset=utf-8"));
post.setEntity(str);
HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
Response is bad request. am i sending the json object as string? is this code correct?
I have a Service defined in the manifest with an intent filter that refuses to match when specified as a String resource but works when the literal action is entered in the manifest. Is there any reason I should not be able to use a String resource with an action in an intent filter?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThis is what I'm trying to support. Can this be done?
a) User is an Activity A in my app. b) The user is taken to the native dialer when he chooses a particular action in my Activity c) User presses the back key d) Taken to homescreen
Is there a way I can change it, so the back key press returns him to my app, instead of native homescreen?
I have a app with 2 activities, A B A has a button that launches a new intent for B. When at B I press home, then launch app again, B is resumed with onResume(). But if after I press home, I use something like taskiller to clear tasks, then I launch app again, it still shows B, but onCreate() is called. What I want for the second situation is for the app to start A instead of B. How can that be done?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a way to resume my activity (which makes phone call) after call ends by user. Currently after user ends a call, it always returns to the phone's native call-log screen instead of the activity that originated the call. Is there any way to prevent or customize this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to configure an android app so that if a user has opened your app, launched numerous activities, then returns to the home screen and relaunches your app again, instead of going to the main activity they will instead be taken to the activity highest on the stack (the most recent activity in your app)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have one main activity and one preference Activity. On my first activity I call menu and go on preference Activity by calling startActivityForResult. Code...
View 1 Replies View RelatedAs the title says? Or what situations can cause this method to return null? I would of thought it retained this object always.
View 2 Replies View RelatedNewbie Question from an iPhone developer.
I have called the startActivity(intent) and the new activity loads. How do I go 'back' to the calling activity once a button is pushed. 'Popping' the activity off the stack basically.
I have 3 classes in my example:
Class A, the main activity. Class A calls a startActivityForResult:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, ClassB.class);
startActivityForResult(intent, "STRING");
Class B, this class is a TabActivity:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, ClassC.class);
tabHost.addTab...
Class C, this class is a regular Activity:
Intent intent = this.getIntent();
intent.putExtra("SOMETHING", "EXTRAS");
this.setResult(RESULT_OK, intent);
finish();
onActivityResult is called in Class A, but the resultCode is RESULT_CANCELED instead of RESULT_OK and the returned intent is null. How do I return something from the Activity inside a TabHost?
I realize that the problem is that my Class C is actually running inside of Class B, and Class B is what is returning the RESULT_CANCELED back to Class A. I just don't know a work around yet.
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.