Android :: Start Service From Activity
Feb 25, 2010In my app i have an activity from which i want to start an Service.
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Android :: Activity Check Service To Start Another Activity
Sep 10, 2010I 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:
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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:
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Android :: Start Activity From The Service
Sep 3, 2010I 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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Oct 6, 2010I 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:
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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.
Android :: Start Service Without Using Any Activity
Oct 16, 2009My 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 .
Android :: How To Start Service From Activity?
Jun 14, 2010How can I start a service from an Activity ?
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Aug 11, 2010Is it possible to start an Activity from a Service? If yes, how can we achieve this?
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Aug 31, 2010Android:
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I launched this service from activity
In activity if condition satisfies start
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From my location service mentioned above could not launch activity, how can i get context of current running activity in service class.
Android :: Start Activity From Service - And Getting Result From It
Feb 11, 2010I have a Service which needs to receive data from external packages. So, to locate the data providing external packages, I use activity- filter and PackageManager.queryIntentActivities function to locate the interesting packages. Now, from each such package, I need to get a ContentProvider URI. So I want to start the external Activity and the external activity will return a result to my service - something like "startActivityForResult". The problem is that there is no way to call "startActivityForResult" from a Service, only Activity can do that, and my project does not have any Activity, and probably can't show UI for the user.
The bottom line: Can anyone suggest a way to get ContentProvider URI from an external package, while my package has only a Service?
Android :: How To Start Activity From Service - If Not Already Started
Mar 19, 2010I've successfully implemented a BootReceiver, AlarmManager, and Service per the code here: http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/SystemServices...
Inside the doWakefulWork method of the Service I am instantiating a few classes, but some of them require my Activity to be running. How do I actually start the Activity? The code above only starts the AlarmManager and Service.
There are also times where the Activity *is* already started, like if the user manually opened it. So I also need to start the Activity "only if it's not already running". Hows that work?
And what about the situation where the user first installs your application and may not even reboot their phone for a week. In that case, do you have to start the Service from the Activity? But then the Service will die with the Activity.
Android :: How To Wait For Service On Activity Start
Nov 2, 2010I am making an application that has Activity which communicates with a single service, and is used to start, stop or change settings of that service. I used a singleton approach from this tip.
My problem is that busy-waiting is not working for me and I can't attach a listener to the service because activity gets blocked. I want the service to start or get it's current instance at application start so I put the busy-waiting in onCreate. I'm guessing I'm doing this very wrong, so how do I do this appropriately?
Android :: Analog Of Start Activity For Result For Service
Jul 14, 2010Despite similar question was asked, I have differnet situation: My app consists mostly of a background Service. I want to start external activities and get results back.I see several options:Create dummy Activity and keep reference to it for using its startActivityForResult. This consumes quite a lot of memory, as we know. Use Broadcast Intents instead of Android's results infrastructure: ask client activities to broadcast their results before closing. This kind of breaks the idea and not so performance-efficient. Use Instrumentation directly - try to copy code from startActivityForResult into my Service. Use Service interfaces - serialize and add AIDL connection to the Intent for starting an Activity. In this case Activity should call Service directly instead of providing result. The third approach feels closer to Android for me, but I'm not sure if it's possible to do - Service does not have its Instrumentation, and default implementation seems to always return null.
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Nov 13, 2009I 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?
Android :: Activity Is Unable To Start Service In Same Package / What I Am Missing?
Jun 9, 2009I have a service class my.app.MyService that I'm attempting to launch from my.app.MyActivity as follows:
Intent svc = new Intent( this, MyService.class );
The manifest contains the entries:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_SERVICE" />
<service android:name =".MyService" />
LogCat gives the message:
"Unable to start service Intent { comp={"my.app/ my.app.MyService" } } : not found"
Could someone kindly let me know what I am missing?
Android :: Android Service Design - Start With Activity Or When Needed?
Nov 24, 2010I'm an android noob that is looking for some advice on how to properly use a service in Android. I am building an app that will connect to a server on the Internet to get a data stream via TCP. That data then needs to get send out to another device that is connected via a bluetooth serial port. I want this to continue to function in the background while the user looks at a different activity. The app will be a NTRIP client, which pulls real time RTK correction data from the Internet and sends it to a RTK GPS receiver that I connect to via bluetooth. The data rate will be about 500 bytes/second. The user interface is a single button to connect or disconnect the data stream and some text to show status of the GPS receiver. There are also a few settings that will need to be configured by the user such as the IP/port of the server to connect to and the bluetooth device to communicate with.I think I need to have the main activity spawn a local service, and then have the service spawn a thread for the TCP stream and another thread for the bluetooth connection. Does this sound right? What is the best model for the service in this scenario?-Start(bind) the service every time the activity starts, and have the connect/disconnect button send commands to the service to start/stop the threads. If I go this route, the service will continue to run after the user disconnects and goes to another app. The service would need an inactivity timer to terminate itself.-Start and stop the service when the user presses the connect/disconnect button. The service only runs when data is moving. If I do this, the activity will need to see if the service is running when the activity starts, in order to know if it should bind to the service or tell the user that the link is disconnected.
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Aug 20, 2009I am getting following message when i try to launch service.Also is there any specific path on file system where we need to place the .apk file which contains my serivce component only.
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Jan 26, 2009I 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?
Android :: Start Activity When Main Activity Is Running In Background
Jan 10, 2010I created an application which enables the user to set whether he wants to receive notification while the application runs in background mode. If the notifications are enabled an activity should be started (the dialog should appear on the screen).
I tried to enabled it the following way:
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This is the method from main activity. When onPause() is executed isRunningInBackground is set true.
When I tried to debug it when the main application was running in the background the line
startActivity(intent) had no effect (the activity didn't appear).
Does anyone know how to midify the logic in order to start an activity from the main activity when the main activity is running in the background (after onPause() is called)?
Android :: Start An Activity In Different Apk Using StartActivity - Using The Activity Name Or Similar
Apr 20, 2010I have tried to write an Android application with an activity that should be launched from a different application. It is not a content provider, just an app with a gui that should not be listed among the installed applications. I have tried the code examples here and it seems to be quite easy to launch existing providers and so on, but I fail to figure out how to just write a "hidden" app and launch it from a different one.
The basic use case is:
App A is a normal apk launchable from the application list.
App B is a different apk with known package and activity names, but is is not visible or launchable from the application list.
App A launches app B using the package and class names (or perhaps a URI constructed from these?).
I fail in the third step. Is it possible to do this?
Android :: Start Activity And Clear Activity History
Apr 22, 2010I have a huge maze of activities in my application. What I need to do, is that when the user logs in into the system, the activity history should be cleared. I cant just use finish() when I start a new activity, because I want the activities to have a history until the user logs in. I have experimentet with the different flags when starting an activity, but I have had no success.
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Nov 19, 2010I want to start a new activity from ab activity that (extends from Linearlayout) .. but this code is not right
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public class SearchResultForm extends LinearLayout{ ...
And i get this error ..
No enclosing instance of the type SearchResultForm is accessible in scope.
Android :: Start An Activity From Non Activity Class
Aug 19, 2009An activity can be called from existing activity through *startActivity(intent); *
Is t possible to call an activity from non Activity class ? and how?
Android : Closing Activity Completely / Process Killed By Activity Manager Service
Aug 2, 2010Whenever 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.
Android :: Start A Map Activity From Other Activity
Apr 8, 2010I am developing an aplication. This one is designed to login a user, then select how find a place, using simple data or using a map. When I try to set in the event OnClick for select the "Map way" (using intent):
startActivity(new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MapviewController.class));
I have problems and didn't work.
My class and manifest are:
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Do you know any way to call the MapActivity from other?
Android :: How To Start A New Thread In Service?
Nov 14, 2010I am developing an Android app and I am doing some heavy work (bringing data from an online web page and parsing it to store in database) in a service. Currently, it is taking about 20+ mins and for this time my UI is stuck. I was thinking of using a thread in service so my UI doesn't get stuck but it is giving error.
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May 15, 2009We have a service. bindService() returns true. But our ServiceConnection is never called with onConnect(). The onCreate() of the service is never executed (neither is the onBind(), of course).
Except sometimes! (twice now, out of many many tries).
Remote service, local service, intent-filter, direct class invocation, "procedure" attribute, no procedure attribute, cupcake, 1.1, emulator, device ... we've tried 'em all!
We belive the service is found, and in the remote case, we see the new process always created ... but the dang service just isn't started. We aren't specifying any security settings and writing the simplest manifest entry we can....
Android :: Start Service From BroadcastReceiver
Jul 4, 2010I am trying to start a service from the BroadcastReceiver, but I keep getting the startService line marked as an error:
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Android :: How To Automatically Start Service
Jan 14, 2010I am having service inside a .apk file. I want to automatically start this service when this package is downloaded from the browser and installed. Is it possible to automatically start the service when the .apk file gets installed using some special intents.
I am right now using activity and broadcast recievers to start the service . But however, I would like to start the service automatically when the apk file gets installed with out writting activity or broadcast recievers.
Android :: Unable To Start Service
Sep 4, 2009My service is not in the same package namespace as my application / activities.
I have
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The issue is that my service is in -- package com.myco.service.myservice and my activity is in -- package com.myco.test.myactivity
My questions are:
1. does my service *have* to be in the com.myco.test namespace?
2. if it doesn't, how do I specify the android:name for my activity and my service to work?
Android :: Service Start And Ui Hanging
Mar 13, 2009I have moved some intensive processing from my main thread to a service. My UI is hanging and then crashing when I start the service, even if I put the service start in a new thread started via
Thread updateThread = new Thread(null, backgroundRefresh2, "new_thread"); updateThread.start();
What am I doing wrong? Also, it seems like the cause of the eventual crash in the service/worker thread doesn't show up in LogCat.