Android :: Way To Catch Intent's Extras If Activity Is Already Running
Mar 4, 2010
I put a notification in the status bar with a PendingIntent (with Extras info) that points to my main app (main activity). When the user clicks the staus bar, the PendingIntent is fired and my app launches and I can read the Extras info in my onCreate() method. So far so good.
But if my app is already running, the PendingIntent simply causes the app to come to the foreground and it does not call any of my methods, so I can't read the content in Extras. What can I do?
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Sep 16, 2010
I've implemented parcelable on a class of mine per the doc instructions, works fine: code...
but I haven't implemented a copy constructor. However, the createFromParcel() method which I did implement is almost like a copy constructor. I'm wondering if I can use it make a copy, but I can't figure out how to get a Parcel instance from the intent extras:
MyParcelable mp2 = MyParcelable.CREATOR.createFromParcel(getIntent().getExtras().getParcelable("key"));// ? just need a parcel ?
it's not the greatest idea, just wondering if it's possible to avoid making another method for my class which will almost be identical to what's already implemented for the Parcelable interface..
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Jan 17, 2010
I'm launching activity from preferences screen. Activity is shared among three preferences.
I wonder if i can set extras for this activity in xml. code...
All i need to do to pass an integer really. I can different actions and check action instead of extras.
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May 20, 2009
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Nov 23, 2010
I set an PendingIntent on a Notification (notification.setLatestEventInfo). this intent is actually the same intent used to launch my app, only with a flag that I put in the extra (intent.putExtra(TAB_INDEX_PARAM_NAME, UPDATES_TAB_INDEX)).
So my first activity launches, it queries it's intent's extras and immediately navigates to an Alerts activity rather the normal activity on a regular launch.
The problem: from this point, every activation of my app navigates to this Alerts activity. when debugged, I find that the flag is "stuck" in the intent even though I removed/changed it. it just won't change.
How can change an extra on a giving Intent?
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Apr 20, 2009
I have an activity that uses a service. While the service is running (it sends some stuff in background) I display a progress bar and disable the send button.
Now I created an Intent to update the interface after the send service has finished. How can I do this only if the activity is still on top? I tried to figure out this in the service with:
CODE:..................
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Jan 2, 2010
I am trying to use Android's LocationManager requestLocationUpdates. Everything is working until I try to extract the actual location object that in my broadcast receiver. Do I need to specifically define the "extras" to my custom intent so that the Android LocationManager before I pass it to requestLocationUpdates so it knows how to add it into the intent, or will it create the extras-bundle regardless when it passes the fired intent to the broadcast receiver?
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Jun 29, 2010
A few days ago I was struggling to find a way to use custom intents for my alarms. Although I got clear answer that I have to customize the Intents based on some unique ID eg. setAction() still have some problems.This can happen more than once for a contact. And when the second message is generated, the notification is raised well (message is fine there) but the intent when the user actions the notification it uses old data, so previous message is passed and not the brand new message.So someway the intent is caching and reusing previous extras. How can I make it unique per contact and per action?
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Aug 10, 2010
MyService and MyClient are both running, although MyClient is currently in the background. If MyService sends an Intent to MyClient via:
CODE:..............
How do I get this Intent in MyClient? Running this code triggers onResume() in MyClient, but because it's already running, calling getIntent() returns the Intent that initially created MyClient, which is always android.intent.action.MAIN
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Jun 27, 2010
This questions somehow relates to the question when I was looking to get the extras back in startActivityForResult but now I face another challenge.
I have subscribed to receive ProximityAlerts and I have explicitly constructed the Intent to include some Extras. But when I got the service the extras are not there.
After the answers here is the working code:
CODE:..........................
The documentation says param PendingIntent to be sent for each location update.
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May 21, 2010
I am trying to catch the intent that is fired when someone clicks on a hyperlink to a web page in the MMS browser. I have this in the manifest:
</intent-filter> <intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<data android:scheme="http" /> </intent-filter>
However, when I click on http://www.ibm.com it only launches Browser. Same when I do
$ am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d http://www.ibm.com
in an adb shell.
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Oct 28, 2010
How to cath android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED event I implemented an broadcast receiver to invoke when sdcard is mounted. But it is not invoked
My source code is as follows:
CODE:..................
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Nov 5, 2010
I have a widget that contains 4 buttons to show 4 stock prices, each of them will launch into the same activity Quote.class to show stock details. In onUpdate(), it will set up the pendingIntent with extras with stock symbol. After I hit button A, it goes to Quote activity that shows stock A. Then I hit the BACK button to the homescreen, Quote activity calls onDestroy() and when I hit button B, stock B will show properly. However, when i hit HOME button after it shows stock A, the Quote activity only calls onStop without calling onDestroy(), then as i hit button B, it will call onStart() and it shows the same instance that shows stock A.
CODE:............
Originally I thought adding a flag in the Intent should solve this problem. But I have tried
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK or FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK or FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY), none of them makes any difference.
So is there any ways to make it work? How can i remove the history stack from HOME button? How can I call onCreate in Quote activity and get new extras when i hit button B?
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Nov 3, 2010
I want to show some notification when android phone is connected to system. I implemented BroadcastReceiver for listening to event android.intent.action.ACTION_UMS_CONNECTED in my application But it is not working. Is it possible to capture this event.
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Oct 17, 2010
My app works with pictures. It can take multiple pictures as an input, process them, and send them again to another app.
As a consequence, my main Activity has declared an intent filter on ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE for image/* mimetypes and can result in issuing a new Intent with the same action and data type using Activity.startActivity(Intent).
Is there a way to exclude my own activity from the list of apps that is displayed to the user after the startActivity() call ?
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Jan 10, 2010
I 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:
CODE:...........
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)?
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Jul 16, 2010
I used Toast to make notification, but it seems it will appear even its activity is not in the current screen and some other activity has been started.I want to check this situation, when the activity is not the current one, I'd not send the Toast notification. But how to do ?
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Apr 3, 2010
I'm having difficulties handling multiple instances of my root (main) activity for my application. My app in question has an intent filter in place to launch my application when opening an email attatchment from the "Email" app. My problem is if I launch my application first through the the android applications screen and then launch my application via opening the Email attachment it creates two instances of my root activity. steps: Launch root activity A, press home Open email attachment, intent filter triggers launches root activity A Is it possible when opening the Email attachment that when the OS tries to launch my application it detects there is already an instance of it running and use that or remove/clear that instance?
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Apr 6, 2010
Sorry for the newbie question, but does anyone know how I can check whether an IntentService is already running? I'm starting an IntentService from onCreate within a normal Activity, and that means that if the user minimises and maximises the application, it gets called twice. I'm wondering if I need to use something like the solution here http://bit.ly/du3VW5 or whether there's a simpler way.
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Aug 11, 2010
I'm develop a download manager function which the dialog will popup when the the item was finished download. the download function was running at background.
My question is how can I know when the downloading was finished and the project is intent other activity?
For example:
CODE:............
The above method where should I put? i try put it at onResume(), onStart() in every activity which will open by user. but unlucky it won't work.
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Jan 27, 2010
I am running into a critical conflict of sorts. My app is a remote service which essentially starts an activity when the screen goes to sleep. How it does this is very simple via screen off broadcast receiver and then an explicit intent to start the activity as a new task. The activity is basically in charge of responding to key events and displaying some simple text.
Thanks to a few window flags added in 2.0, activities can do this. They can be created in a way that either puts them on top of the lockscreen, or completely dismiss the lockscreen. This way they basically have focus without the lockscreen having to be dismissed by user. The alarm clock in 2.0 uses the flags to wake up the device and show the alarm dialog. I use them to place my activity when the screen sleeps so the user sees a custom wakeup lockscreen. The reason we create it at screen off is to get rid of lag the user experiences at wakeup involving first seeing the lockscreen, then seeing the activity appear. Also doing it immediately at sleep allows it to have focus so it can handle key events effectively.
The process works perfectly except in certain apps. So far, it seems the bug is consistent while browser (and even dolphin browser) as well as the facebook app are running. The bug never happens in GTalk or Launcher. It is rare but can still be duplicated in the messaging app every so often. I can't figure out why my activity doesn't get created at sleep while these apps are active. My remote service still gets the screen off broadcast and does the startActivity for the explicit intent, and that's all I get in the log. My onCreate is not being called. Instead it gets called when we wake the screen up again.
I have tried, as a control, to hold the partial wakelock starting when my remote service gets created, and the issue persists. So I don't believe it is a problem that the CPU has gone to sleep. Since only these particular apps cause the issue to duplicate, I can't imagine why the activity start fails. What could those apps be doing to interfere with another app's ability to get created? I use singleInstance as the launch mode so that I can ensure that the activity will never be able to be recalled by user process. I want it to go away when user unlocks and it is working fine like this, as long as it is able to be created. The singleInstance ensures I can have the same lockscreen handle an intent to do something specific based on user actions that the remote service monitors.
my source code can be viewed on my project page. http://code.google.com/p/mylockforandroid/source/browse/#svn/trunk/myLock/src/i4nc4mp/myLock
The issue happens to both my CustomLockService and NoLockService variations. These two services will start Lockscreen or ShowWhenLockedActivity and the bug is witnessed. The build illustrating the bug's end result-- user has to try to unlock 3 times due to the bug because on wakeup when the oncreate finally succeeds, user is seeing the activity when normally it would have auto-dismissed thanks to key event logic that also isn't seeming to happen due to the delayed onCreate, so they have to send it to sleep again. Now that the activity is properly done being started, and screen is asleep, the expected functionality happens at next wakeup-- can be downloaded also from the downloads tab.
This seems like an extremely irrational thing to be caused only by specific apps. I am quite baffled and out of ideas for a solution unless I've made some critical mistake in my activity definitions.
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Nov 2, 2010
Is it possible to get the Activity from an Intent?
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Oct 14, 2010
I'm switching between different Activities using Intents. For one Activity, I would like it to clear the history stack so when the user presses the back button, it takes them Home instead of previous activities in my application.
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Jun 9, 2009
I've searched for a few hours for a solution to this, so hopefully this isn't a repost I'm setting a shortcut on the Home screen which raises an Intent to my application - the problem is that I don't want to show my app, just run a little code and display a Toast notification. This must be possible - I just can't work out how.. Once I'm handling the shortcut Intent in onCreate() the UI has initialised and I get a little screen flicker if I then run my code and finish().
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Aug 24, 2009
I have a service that is downloading a file. When the download is done, I would like to update my "Downloaded files" list in my Activity, but only if the Activity is running. I do not want the Activity to start if it's not already running. I was hoping I could do this by making a new Intent with some special flag. Anyone have any idea how I can achieve this? A tiny code example maybe?
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Jan 2, 2010
I have three classes one main-activity(named MainMap), one non-activity class(named MyItemizedOverlay), and one activity class(named AudioStream). I want to start AudioStream activity from non-activity class but i don't know how to.
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May 27, 2010
I am relatively new to android. I have two applications A and B. I have an activity in A, lets name it x, that would launch the application B. Now the intent sent by x contains StringExtra that I want the Starting activity in B to use. Is there a way for the activity in B to do that?
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Jul 6, 2010
I need to start an Activity with two different Intent, can I define two Intents In an Activity node?
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Sep 1, 2010
I want to pass a value from one Activity to another to update an integer. So basically I want Activity2 to send Activity1 a value it has garnered from user input. Seems like it should be simple just not sure how. Is it possible to run a function from another Activity and give it this value as an argument?
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Nov 6, 2010
I have a server running that notifies the user with a statusbar notification that opens my main activity, how can I pass data to my activity trough that intent?
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