I need to launch a service running in the background,that should record what's on the current screen for say about 10 sec.. i should able to save it in a file or on any storage device and later i should able to retrieve it also..
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I have an screen that displays all the names in the Contacts in a ListView. When the user clicks on a name, I want to launch another Activity which display the details of the selected Contact (Phone number/ email) in another screen. How do I display details for the selected row. (i.e When starting the intent how do I send over the row_id of the item selected)?
I've tried the following code:
Intent i = new Intent(this, ContactDetails.class);
startActivity(i);
I need to run a service each night at midnight. I would like to use the AlarmManager to do this. Can you give me some guidance of how to make it work correctly?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to create an app or background service that just listens for the launch of a 'default' app, say Contacts or the built-in Gmail app. If the contact app is clicked, I want to transfer control to my app temporarily (e.g. present a Yes/No popup to the user or increment an internal counter of my app ) and then redirect the user back to the app that was clicked. I want to do this only for a couple of 'well-known' built-in default apps, not any third party apps..
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have developed 2 android applications and what i want is a way to launch my android application no2 from say my android application no 1 can anyone plz guide me with this. And tell me the extact intent i need to fire.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe default behavior of an activity when BACK softkey is pressed is, GO BACK TO PREVIOUS ACTIVITY. If some the same activity is waiting for some response from server or some data updation is going on and then press BACK, I want to wait on the same screen till the current task is completely processed and then move out to the previous activity.
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I just wanted a small piece of information. I am trying to record a video in background as a service. But, I am unable to record it. Can you tell me first of all that is it possible or not.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to record video in a service, that is without setting the setPreviewDisplay? I tried it on a HTC Desire, however it is throwing this info in the log.
MediaRecorder Prepare Failed: -1
CameraInput No surface is available for display
Is there some additional properties to be set?
How do I go to previous screen from current screen in Android app? I know there is a back button on phone, but it takes me to beginning screen of my app and I want my buttons on app to work for going back to previous screen.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a need to create a background service that starts up during the system boot up, and keeps running until the device is powered down. There is no UI or Activity associated with this. I created a class extending the android Service class, and added the setttings to the AndroidManifest.xml file. When I launch this service in the emulator, I don't see this launched at all. I have overrided almost all the methods in the Service class to put log statements, but none of them shows up.
View 13 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to get the currently running activity through Service..?
i.e. I have a service started by an Activity A, and now I want to stop the service by another activty say Activity B.
Since Activity B doesnt know about the service, i want to capture the events in OnKeyDown() of the Activity B in my service...
Is this possible.. How can i get the Activity B's object..?
i'd like to Launch an Activity Form a Service. I know that this is not best practice for android however i am creating an application that is just a service and the first time it runs the user needs to accept some terms and conditions (this is the activity i need to launch). Can any one help me some code to do this? Is it possible?
View 13 Replies View RelatedIs there a native android way to get a reference to the currently running Activity from a service?
I have a service running on the background, and I would like to update my current Activity when an event occurs (in the service). Is there a easy way to do that (like the one I suggested above)?
So say there's an app running (any app). I'd like to be able to get it's Activity from within a Service that will be triggered to run from a android.intent.action.SEARCH_LONG_PRESS.
Is this possible?
Can I get the detailed description of how to launch application from web link or A trusted link where I can get the steps to do the same..
View 7 Replies View RelatedAndroid Market has a neat feature allowing you to launch it using a url in the format of market:// ... Is there an equivalent method for launching an application using a link?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there way to dump the current screen to a bitmap in Android?
And what about dump screen of other applications? For example, running a service background, the foreground app could send an intent to start the service, and capture the current screen and save as a bitmap.
Is there a app or way to take a snap shot of the screen to share on social sites, such as the temp. where I live?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am desperately trying to get my head wrapped around how to implement home screen widgets. Right now, I (finally) was able to get a button on my widget respond to a button press setting up an intent filter in the manifest.
However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to launch an activity when the button is pressed. Basically, here's the code i have...
What I really want to do, though, is start a new activity, not display a toast message. I know it has something to do with pending intents, but I can't figure out how to get that to work.
I have been looking for this for a while but I can't find any way of doing it. A contrived example would be a service that simply displays the name of the current running activity as an Ongoing Notification. For instance, when the user is reading a particular email, the name of the activity (hopefully the email title!) would appear in the notifications window and when the user switches to read a text message, the notification would change to show the name of the new activity. Is there a way to do this in Android?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to get the current focus view in my Service to check the view is a EditText and append some texts in it (for all EditTexts, not only in my application).
I found some methods to do this, like Activity.getCurrentFocus() and Windows.getCurrentFocus(). But these methods are used in a Activity.
How can I use these methods in a Service? Or is there another way to do?
How do you pass an intent from a service to a new activity launched from a main activity? There's a passextra( intent src ); but I don't think thats what I am looking for?
activity main > start service( intent wuteverserviceintent );
activity main > start activity( intent newactivityintent );
My app is comprised of a set of reusable Activities that other apps can reuse. For various reasons, I would like my Activities to be launched in context of the invoking Activity's process, instead of always being launched in my Activity's process (default behavior on Android). How can I achieve this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI wish to have one application that runs in the background, which knows when any of the built-in applications (messaging, contacts, etc) is running. So my questions are: How I should run my application in the background. How my background application can know what the application currently running in the foreground is.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen you do a Thread.currentThread().getId(), is the resulting thread id scoped per process or scoped to the current Activity/Service?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a Service that I am running in the background every minute. It's an IntentService and I start it like this:
Code:
Intent i = new Intent(context, GPSTracker.class);
PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getService(context, 0, i, 0);
AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
[code]...
That works, my Service is being run every minute (give or take a couple seconds for some reason) whether the app is up, closed, the phone is sleeping, whatever. how I should be getting the current location from this Service. I'm attempting to use LocationListener and a mix of getLastKnownLocation and hoping onLocationChanged will be called.
I think my problem is, onLocationChanged is barely getting called. Everytime the service runs and I do getLastKnownLocation I send a message to my database to check, I send a different message everytime onLocationChanged is called. I went to the store and back and getLastKnownLocation was called a few times, but onLocationChanged was only called once and it was incorrect. getLastKnownLocation always seems to be incorrect to.
Code:
protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
Log.i(TAG, "In onHandleIntent!");
Location currentLocation = getLocation(this);
if(currentLocation == null) {
saveLocation(-8.0, -8.0, "nothing", "nothing", "nothing");
[code]...
I know you can use the ddms view in eclipse to take a snapshot of the screen, but can you somehow make a video like that?
View 4 Replies View Relatedany easy way to record the activities and views on my Android app to a video without root access. To be a bit more specific, I am looking for a screen-recording solution so that I can get a video of the user's interaction with the app interface. Connecting the phone to any device such as a computer to do the recording is not an option.
Here is a sample gif that I created using a Mac screen recorder to record the iOS simulator interface. It gives a rough idea of what I would like to achieve on Android, except for the fact that I would like the same to be from the actual phone (not the emulator) and without having to connect the phone to a computer or any other device.
I'm looking for a screen capture app that lets me record my gameplay off my Android. I have tried Screencast PRO , but I don't get no video after I open the game I am trying to record or it lags up bad , audio isn't synced correctly , and pieces of the notification bar are included in the video . I'm using the Droid Razr running on AOKP ICS 4.0.4 Rooted.
View 2 Replies View Relatedis it possible to manually rotate the screen or fix the current screen orientation (with a key/button)? because it really annoys me having taken portrait pictures that cannot be viewed (with the media gallery application) in a portrait fashion on the milestone. this is because it always rotates the portrait picture back to landscape when rotating the milestone from landscape to portrait. right now there is no way of properly viewing portrait pictures on the milestone other than tilting your head (holding the milestone landscape and tilting your head along).this cannot be the way it was intended to be, right? or do I have to get a different viewing software which allows you to choose screen orientation? is there such an app?
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