Android :: How To Implement A Service?
May 3, 2010
I'm brand new to android and developing in general. I'm using android's SDK with eclipse Galileo. I've followed several tutorials to create different layouts. I've even learned recently how to use radio buttons and verify which ones were selected. Now I need to create a service that downloads and updates an xml file within the application. I've tried to locate a simple tutorial for services on Google's developer site but so far, so bad. If they exist could somebody point me in the right direction?
On the other hand, I've been told Google's tutorials are a little out dated. Is that true? If so, are there any other tutorials that would hand-hold (and possibly over-explain) how to use a service to a true newbie for free (like google)?
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Jul 29, 2009
I have question about implement OTA service on Android phone when i use dev phone, it will auto update to cupcake so OTA is a service that operator provide to update ? and it means OTA could change the system.img ? if i want to build an OTA service, what should i start to read ? i need to know how to replace system.img and how to backup userdata ?
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Mar 30, 2010
I have a Music Player application and music plays continuously even user comes out of application UI. I have read that such background processing should be done with service in android. How to do that?any idea?
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Jul 7, 2010
Is it possible implement an Android application as a web service? On the official site I've read:
Note: If you want to develop a server-side application, we recommend that you implement your application as a servlet running in a servlet engine like Tomcat or full-blown JSEE container like Geronimo. If you prefer to implement a server-side application based on our HttpService, we'll assume that you know what you're doing and that you don't need help in figuring out which interceptors need to be configured.
How can I implement this? Apache TOMCAT can run on Android?
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Jan 9, 2010
How do I implement SOAP Web service client on Android? Can someone point me to any examples?
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Nov 9, 2010
I have a service that will send out notifications with timed tasks. I need this service to run outside the life of the application, but I only need to access the services functions during the lifespan of the app. Is a local service enough or do I need to implement AIDL?
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Nov 18, 2010
I have to handle "power down" event in my service, but so far I couldn't find how to receive "power down" event...Do I need to implement "broadcast receiver" functionality in my service? I would appreciate some pointers.
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Jun 24, 2009
I have a service running in the background.I have a background thread that gets a reference to the service from the application's main activity. But when the background thread calls a method in the service to display a toast, I get the "Looper not initialized exception".Why,if I have a valid, bound reference to a Service, does this still happen?
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Aug 20, 2009
I 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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Jul 22, 2010
I am trying to run the sample soft keyboard included in the SDK. I am using the debugger, and the literature says that to use a breakpoint while debugging a SERVICE, I need to include:
android.os.Debug.waitForDebugger();
So here is the portion of the code I modified:
CODE:...........
I have put a couple of breakpoints, at the statements indicated by the comments.
This is what happens: the debugger first stops at the breakpoint1, for a few seconds. But then the service restarts. For the life of me I can't figure out what makes the service to restart.
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Mar 1, 2009
My service works exactly the way i want as long as i use start and stop and communicate using intents. However my activity needs to change the state of my service as well as retrieving state information.So i thought it would be nice to broadcast some kind of state_changed event from my service and use a binder interface to pull information from the service or change the services state based on user input.This works fine too. The only problem is that my service gets killed when i unbind it just as the documentation says.Is there any way to keep the service alive but still get an interface to control it directly. My activity offers the user a way to stop the service and the service kills itself anyway after it's work is done but i don't want the service to stop every time the activity is destroyed.
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Nov 9, 2010
I'm confused about whether I need to run my service in a separate process. What are the advantages / disadvantages of each?For reference I'm trying to create an App that uses a service to play [streaming] audio in the background. So which one is better for my use case?
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Nov 20, 2010
what I'm trying to do here is implement something like a peer-to-peer client. Being that, it will start a client thread and a server thread.I know Services themselves run in the main GUI thread, so I'll have to start a couple of independent threads (or Asynctasks?) for each server and client. The only thing I'm not so sure about is if I'll better have 1 Service starting 2 threads, or maybe 2 services, each one of them starting their own thread.
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Nov 30, 2009
I got an problem on getting the TelephonyManager in my personal service. The code as below: public class MyService extends Service {@Override public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) { return mBinder;}
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Sep 30, 2009
i have an app that binds to a local service.I want to add a desktop widget that binds to the same service. does my service have to be a remote service or can it still be local?if it can still be local, how can I get at the local binder?
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Sep 30, 2010
Please show me how to bind to a Service from another Service on Android.
If you have an image to show how to do.
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Jul 16, 2010
I am developing an Android app which needs to poll a specific webpage in time intervals. I've got it to the point where it does indeed poll the page on a specific interval, and that interval is specified in a SharedPreference which can be changed by the user in the settings page of the app. But complications arise when network connectivity is flaky.For example, how do I ensure that the Service "wakes up" the network adapter and gives it ample time to connect before polling the page, in the case that the phone was sleeping to save power? This polling action can happen as little as once every 24 hours, so I don't want to miss one action just because the network was out (but turned on a few seconds, minutes, or even hours later).
Or there are times when the web service doesn't respond, or DNS doesn't respond, or what have you, and for any reason it doesn't get a response even though the phone is technically connected. What sort of rule do I put in place to make this retry later, so that I'm not retrying repeatedly when the user specifically turned off their internet but I'm retrying soon enough that if it was just a hiccup, the data can be received soon after the first try?Are there any examples for this type of situation? What is the logic to best handle this?
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May 28, 2010
I'm developing a GPS tracking software on android. I need IPC to control the service from different activities. So I decide to develop a remote service with AIDL.This wasn't a big problem but now it's always running into the methods of the interface and not into those of my service class. Maybe someone could help me?If i now try to call a method from an activity for example start(trackId) nothing happens. The binding is OK. When debugging it always runs into the startTracking() in the generated ITrackingServiceRemote.java file and not into my TrackingService class. Where is the problem? I can't find anything wrong.
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Feb 17, 2010
i have a question about Services in Android.I have a application with two Services A and B.Is it possible that Service A can stop Service B?I dont want to do it through a Activity, cause the Application will be in Background. If some special Event happen in Service A, then it should tell Service B to stop. How can i do that?
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Jan 10, 2014
I have a galaxy s2 and after I installed costom roms I dont have any signal what so ever.
I tried with like 3 roms and the same result.
I tought it was a modem problem and I tried to install some modems and see if that works. But it didnt.
My Service State says Out of service and sometimes it says Radio off.
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Oct 7, 2010
How to implement tabs in Android. I am having a context. In that I want 3 tabs named Free,TOP,Paid.Clicking on each of the tab should open separate activity.
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Feb 18, 2010
I'd like to implement drill down view in Android. Currently, onListItemClick, I refill the same list view with different data. any other suggestions? Something like the way it is done using UITableView on iPhone? is it possible to animate (push left or right) the listview fill operation?
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May 30, 2010
I have a widget that periodically updates itself (hourly) to display top result of search query. I would like to extend it so it captures several top results and then loops through these. The best example would be Genie News and Weather widget for which I was unable to find a source code. What would be a good way to implement the animation? I'm thinking ViewAnimator + timer, but is there maybe a better way, say FrameLayout + alerts? I'm already using AlertManager to periodically pull search results for the widget How bad such arraignment would affect phone's battery life?
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Jul 13, 2009
Is there any available guide to implement TLS for Android applications?
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Oct 16, 2009
I am porting GPS to Android now. I have been look for many web site relate to Android GPS porting include this group. However, I also feel confused about that. I have some questions. Can anyone give me some suggestions and I will appreciate about that. 1.There are 3 files : Android.mk, gps.cpp and gps_qemu.c in hardware/ libhardware_legacy/gps. What is the functionality about the 3 files in directory gps. Should I modify the 3 files to implement GPS. In this web site http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/cupcake/development/pdk/docs/g..., it shows that anyone that want to integate GPS with Android should create a shared library named libgps.so refer to gps.h. My question is how to create a shared library libgps.so.If the libgps.so is created, where can I find it. What is the relation between libgps.so and libhardware_legacy.so. 3.How to test GPS if gps is implemented successfully. I know there is a gpstest tool in Android but I don't know how to use it. Can someone tell me the detail about gpstest tool provided by Android.
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Mar 15, 2010
Say I want to define that an URI such as: myapp://path/to/what/i/want?d=This%20is%20a%20test must be handled by my own application, or service. Notice that the schema is "myapp" and not "http", or "ftp". That is precisely what I intend: to define my own URI schema globally for the Android OS. Is this possible? This is somewhat analogous to what some programs already do on, e.g., Windows systems, such as Skype (skype://) or any torrent downloader program (torrent://).
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Feb 7, 2010
Im having problems with implementing the double tap. Well i implemented the ongestureListener and i had the gesturedetector, but im not sure wheres the problem here is my code...
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Nov 22, 2010
Let's say I randomly generate a number 0 to 100. Where 0 is really cold and 100 is red hot. Wen the number hits, it would show an image bar (kind of like a % finished bar) that shows in the image what # you hit.
So it would kind of be like a progress bar from 0 to 100, and whatever # they hit it shows in the image of the bar in an imageview?
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Jul 20, 2010
I've got 2 classes GLLayer and GLCamTest. I'm attempting to run a method located in GLCamTest...
CODE:..........
I'm looking to run in on a thread from GLLayer but from what I understand I need a Handler..
CODE:.........
I'm starting the Thread from within public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) { my question is how would I implement said handler? I've read http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Handler.html but I still don't really understand how I'd implement it.
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Aug 3, 2010
I would like to implement a new LocationProvider. In this case, one that uses OpenCellID.org. I figured the pattern wou be quite similar to providing an AccountAuthenticator but was stunned that I could not find any documentation on this.
Looking at the source http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/frameworks/base/location/java/... all the relevant code seems to be in a service providing the ILocationManager.aidl -interface that I cannot navigate to or find using Goole Code Search.
Is it supported to provide your own LocationProvider at all? If so, what do I have to do to acomplish this?
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