Android :: Passing Data Between Service And Activity
Sep 19, 2010
So I'm getting really confused on how to do this whole thing and I was hoping someone could break it down for me a little bit.I have a service that should always be running, and at certain times it needs to alert the user that a task is to be completed(probably through a notification bar icon). When the user accepts the task, the service needs to look into the local database, construct some non primitive objects, and give them to the activity that it just started.I have looked all over and gotten very confused as to a proper approach so I have a few questions to help me wrap my head around it.If an activity creates a local SQLite database can the service and activities of that application access that same database later?Does the service and activity need to be in the same or separate packages? I would think no but for some reason I remember seeing something about this elsewhere.
How would I do the data transmission from the service to the activity? I was thinking a content provider but it seems like there should be an easier way for the service to just hand off the data. Similar to an Intent but for non primitives.
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Mar 30, 2009
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 );
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Sep 23, 2009
I am having issue for sending data from service to Activity through notification , I click a notification a activity get invoked but when i try to add some parameters through bundle i am not able to get the parameters in that called intent , I have gone through the link
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1198558/how-to-send-parameters-from-a-notification-click-to-an-activity. but still no luck has any body occurred with the same issue.
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Jun 17, 2010
I want to create an app that contains a Service S and an Activity A. The Service S is responsible for preprocessing, such as preparing the data shown on the UI of the Activity A, before the Activity A gets invoked.I want to be able to invoke the Service S from outside the package, say from another Android app's Activity class B, do the preprocessing, and then when the data is ready, invoke Activity A. What is the best way to share data between the Service S and Activity A?How can the external activity B communicate with the Service S to determine if it has completed with all its preprocessing, and the Activity A is ready to be invoked?
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May 16, 2010
I'm writing an application that starts with a loading activity. In the loading activity the app requests html from web and parses the html, then it sends the parsing result to the main activity. The main activity has several tabs, and contents of these tabs are based on the result of parsing.For example, the result of parsing is a list of strings ["apple", "banana", "orange"], and I need to pass this list to main activity, so that the main activity can create three tabs named after three fruits.I would like to know if there is any way to pass a list of strings among activities, BTW, is it the common way of do this?
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Jul 20, 2010
How do I get data within an Android Service that was passed from an invoking Activity?
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Feb 16, 2010
I am little confused with the use of intents used for sending data to activity from service. In my application I have to have startactivity from the service and have to pass data ,so that activity can utilize the data while launching.For this i have written the following code Intent intent = new Intent(Service.this,Activity.class); intent.putExtra("data", data); intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); context.start Activity(); I assume that the data is passed to the activity and can be parsed on the oncreate function of the activity.Now the service running in the background has to pass data to the activity continously for UI updates.For this I have written the following codeIntent intent = new Intent(Service.this, Activity.class); intent.putExtra("Data", data); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_ATTACH_DATA); sendBroadcast(intent,null); (Do I need to broadcast the intent???) In activity I have done following things:- Implemented broadcast reciever:private BroadcastReceiver mBroadcastReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { if (Intent.ACTION_ATTACH_DATA.equals(intent.getAction())) { Bundle extra = intent.getExtras(); float Data[] = extra.getFloatArray("Data"); update(Data);
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Aug 13, 2010
I 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.
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Nov 24, 2010
I am pretty new to this but I was told I could get good help here. A friend and myself are playing around with creating Android apps (using ADT)
Here is how we are trying to make the program: in activity, user sets threshold values for the X and Y axis on accelerometer. When user hits button "Start", startService is invoked and starts TiltService.
TiltService is designed to run in the background always on the phone without user interaction. TiltService constantly compares the threshold with the accelerometer values and will vibrate if they are off.
My problem is I can't seem to get the putExtra() data correctly. I have overridden the onStartCommand in my service but I get the message "unreachable code" when I save the getExtras() to a bundle.
Here is the relevant code (I can post the whole thing, just do not want to clog up page) code...
I thought I understood the basic of how Intents could pass data, but I guess I don't. Is it obvious what I am missing?
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Jun 30, 2010
I've a service that is receiving UDP data from the network. I want to push this data from the service to a UI activity.
One way to do it is using broadcast Intents. What is the performance overhead of sending broadcasts frequently from the service to the activities?
Are there any other alternatives for doing this?
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Nov 4, 2010
How to pass parameter value to web service in Android?
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Aug 9, 2009
I've read the android AIDL documentation and have a general idea of how RPC works between an Activity and a Service. However, for my application it seems overboard to implement such features: basically, I want to pass a Service a nice handler so its thread can pass data to my Activity. Currently I'm getting around this by using a static public member (a hack) but I would prefer just passing a Handler object in the Service's starting Intent. However since a Handler isn't serialize-able , I haven't found a way to pass it to the service without a simple static member hack. Any insight? Or, am I just going to have to suck it up and do a formal RPC to the service?
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Dec 15, 2009
Im using ksoap2 to call web .net services. The call works just fine except when I pass paramaters. The passed paramaters are always recieved as null values by the web service. I dont know what the problem is, I hope someone can help.
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Sep 2, 2010
I got a Widget on my HomeScreen on which i add an click to a Button. I pass the widget id from the Widget to a Service, but when im reading the WidgetId at the Service it's always 3.
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Sep 27, 2010
i searched the net to find something about how to pass arguments to JSON c# .net web service, but i didn't find anything useful for me. I have to pass arguments like GUID or at least Username and Password. Is params.put("var", ""); the right thing? How do i pass multiple parameters like this, let's say username and password?
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Nov 9, 2010
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.
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Dec 9, 2009
I'm having a problem in calling .net c# web services from android using ksoap2. The call is executed just fine without parameters, but when I pass parameters of any type, the web service just receives a null value. I tried everything possible but no luck so far. I hope someone can help, The client side code is:
public static boolean temp(){try {
SoapObject request = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME_TEMP);
PopertyInfo p = new PropertyInfo();
p.type = PropertyInfo.INTEGER_CLASS;
p.setName("num");
p.setValue(5);
p.setNamespace(NAMESPACE);
request.addProperty(p);
SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope (SoapEnvelope.VER11 );
envelope.dotNet = true;
envelope.encodingStyle = SoapSerializationEnvelope.ENC;
envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
AndroidHttpTransport androidHttpTransport = new AndroidHttpTransport (URL);
androidHttpTransport.setXmlVersionTag("<?xml version= "1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>")
androidHttpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION_TEMP, envelope); ....
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Jul 21, 2010
I am new to android applications, I am using Ksoap2 to access .Net webservice and The call is executed just fine without parameters. But with parameters I am getting Empty. I followed all the steps provided in sites. I tried everything possible but no luck so far.
private static final String SOAP_ACTION = "http://www.agilelearning.com/GetProvincelist1";
private static final String METHOD_NAME = "GetProvincelist1 ";
private static final String NAMESPACE = "http://www.agilelearning.com" ;
private static final String URL = "http://192.168.1.24/Service.asmx";
//Method executed when Province is selected
private OnItemSelectedListener selectListener = new OnItemSelectedListener(){
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView parent, View v, int position, long id){
try{
ArrayList districts=new ArrayList();
int Provinceid=position+1;//parent.getItemAtPosition(position).toString();
SoapObject request1 = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME1);
request1.addProperty("Provincename","East Province");
SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope1 = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);
envelope1.dotNet = true;
envelope1.setOutputSoapObject(request1);
HttpTransportSE at = new HttpTransportSE(URL);
at.debug = true;
at.setXmlVersionTag("");
at.call(SOAP_ACTION1, envelope1);
SoapObject rs = (SoapObject)envelope1.getResponse();
int count=rs.getPropertyCount();
for(int i=0;i aa;
aa = new ArrayAdapter(home1.this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, districts); aa.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
sd.setAdapter(aa);
}catch(Exception ex){
MessageBox("No Districts found");}}
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Feb 11, 2010
I have an app which makes use of several layout-views. Every layout - view also got a class for it, which extend the Activity class. One class for example retrieves some database values whilst offering a search form to the user. Afterwards the user can select one of those values and he gets presented with another screen which gives similar options as the one selected. Anyways, I'd like for the first Activity to be able to send an array with data (Strings for example) to the second one. Right now I show an activity by using:
Intent i = new Intent(this, activitysName.class); startActivity(i);
I have no idea whilst using this construction how I can "initialize" the new object with the String array I want to pass to it. So how should this be achieved ? Should I be using something else instead of an Intent-Activity combination ?
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Jun 7, 2010
I have a Bitmap image and i want to forward the bitmap to another activity. I have two activities Activity A and Activity B. This is how I started the Activity B
startActivityForResult(new Intent(Activity A.this, Activity B.class), 120);
in activity B
private void forwardImage(Bitmap bit) {
Intent i = new Intent(MMS.this, Compose.class);
i.putExtra("MMS", bit);
setResult(RESULT_OK, i);
finish(); }
This is not forwarding to Activity A but if I put a String to the intent it'll forward. This is how I listen to result in Activity A
@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
// super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
switch (resultCode)
case RESULT_OK: Intent intent = getIntent();
Bitmap bitmap = (Bitmap) intent.getParcelableExtra("MMS");
mmsImage.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
default: break;
} }
How can I pass a bitmap.
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Mar 2, 2009
I'm programming an Activity that launches a second one through startActivity just like in the Forwarding example. The main difference is that I'd like to pass some data to the second Activity when starting it, for example an item selected in a list owned by the first Activity. I can't find how to do that. Am I missing something? I guess I do.
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Jun 14, 2010
I have a ListView that shows a list of names. When you select a name, I want to pass the selected person' ID to the next view (Profile) and retreieve their data based on their ID. I am able to load the Profile View, but do not know how to pass the ID from the ListView to the Profile. Here is how I am loading the Profile: Code...
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Feb 15, 2010
Usually, 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?
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Nov 20, 2010
I have a need where I must pass some values from an Activity to another file which extends View class (instead of Activity). Its not the normal passing of values from one activity to another. In my Activity, I will pass some co-ordinate values to the class that extends View. In this class, I will draw an image and place points over the image on the required co-ordinates. But, the problem is, I cant send values using Intent.
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Feb 28, 2010
For a rather crazy reason I am trying to pass a linear Layout from one activity to another. Should I use an intent extra for this? What would be the right way to create a Linear Layout in one activity and then spawn a new activity using that linear Layout.
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Apr 1, 2009
I need to pass a 2 dimensional array to an ACTIVITY from a SERVICE. How can I achieve this in minimum number of statements (as in avoiding putExtras for each and every string stored in the array)?
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Apr 4, 2009
I'm trying to create an activity which would be on top of other activities (a small dialog themed activity) and I want to get ALL key events to be ignored by my activity and handled normally by the activity beneath it. When I say all I mean the send, end and back keys too. Is this possible?I've tried setFocusable(false), setting the flag FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE, and adding a dummy onKeyListener but nothing doesn't seem to do the trick.
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Apr 7, 2009
I am developing an image applications.
One activity decoding image file (jpg, bmp, and so on) to byte buffer RGB 565 or 888 type.
Then want to pass image buffer to another activity for change image data.
I have 3 activity the main decoding activity[A] and selecting effect activity[B] and apply effect activity[C] for change image data.
If i use intent then activity[A] should make intent[1] and putExtra to that intent. and then [B] call getIntent and getByteArrayExtra for get byte buffer.
If user select effect then [B] make new intent[2] and putExtra to intent[2]. and startActivityForResult with intent[2] and activity[C].
Then activity[C] call getIntent to get intent[2] and getByteArrayExtra for get byte buffer again.
There takes much times to make new byte buffer and copy from parent's activity's byte buffer 2 times. [A]->[B] and [B]->[C]
That process drops application performance.
Questions
1. Can i pass intent[1] to activity[C] without make new intent[2] and putExtra byte buffer? by modify intent[1]. (if it works just 1 buffer copy will perform)
2. Can i use application global memory for share byte buffer? if i use hash map how can each activity access same hash map? (if it works don't need to copy buffer)
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Jul 23, 2010
I have two activities:
"a" that spawns thread for generating a dynamic array of values inside public void run() function.
"b", graphics activity that will help me draw rectangular pulses based on array values calculated in activity "a" (calculated in a's thread to be precise).
When I am in thread inside "a", how do I pass values of array to activity "b" and
call activity as well.
activity A
CODE:..........
activity B
CODE:..............
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Nov 6, 2010
I'm new to Android, and event driven code in general. Rather than embed loads of anonymous event listener classes in my Activity to handle onClick events etc, I defined separate classes to keep the code clean. Then I use them e.g. like this
myButton.setOnClickListener(new MyEventListener());
So, when 'myButton' gets clicked, MyEventListener's onClick method does some stuff.
I wanted to know the best practice for
a) accessing things in my Activity from the event listener. For example to change the text of a label. The onClick event takes a View in, but this is the view for the button that's been clicked, so if the label is NOT a child of my button, I can't use findViewById to get a handle to it. I've modified the constructor to pass in a reference to the label, so that the event has a handle to it but not sure if this is the most elegant way of doing it.
b) Passing information back e.g. when my event fires, I might want to disable some EditText fields. I'm thinking the proper way to do this is probably to dispatch another event from my event listener, that the Activity listens for, and when it sees the event, disables the fields in question. Is that the way to do it in Android?
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