MyService and MyClient are both running, although MyClient is currently in the background. If MyService sends an Intent to MyClient via:
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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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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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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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After examinzing the code, I found that the startActivity does not update the intent of B. I found a post here about the similar question, and the answer was to overwrite the onNewIntent. However, I found that it doesn't work, because this method never get called when the second time I call startActivity. I am sure that this is the same instance, because I've printed out the instance number. Is there any other ways to update the intent of the activity? Or I need some other settings to make the onNewIntent get called? I didn't set any flags or launch modes, so everything is default.
How do I get data within an Android Service that was passed from an invoking Activity?
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What are my options?
Can I pass an Enum?
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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.
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When ever we need to send an email in Android we will invoke registered email application using Intent.ACTION_SEND. like the below
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send mail..."));
My doubt is why do we need to use Intent.createChooser in startActivity rather than using
startActivty(i).
Is there any specific reason of using Intent.createChooser()?
I 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?
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I'm using an AlarmManager to trigger an intent that broadcasts a signal. The following is my code:
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I'm calling this code from an activity, so I don't know how I could be getting the following error...
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Is this really what you want?
I have implemented a ListView in my Android application.
I bind to this ListView using a custom subclass of the ArrayAdapter class. Inside the overridden ArrayAdapter.getView(...) method, I assign an OnClickListener. In the onClick(View v) method of the OnClickListener, I want to launch a new activity.
I get the exception:
Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?
How can I get the context that the ListView (the current Activity) is working under?
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I've got a problem My app show a first layout like: Gridview1 (3 images in 1 row) ImageView1 (1 image) Gridview2 (3 images in 1 row) ImgaeView2 (1 image) Gridview3 (3 images in 1 row) ImgaeView3 (1 image) When you clik over an image it will be open full screen in a second layout, The problem was that I don't know how to pass the image to the new intent. Now I've the next code:
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But the ItemID is always 0. Before I've only one gridview and then I passed the item's position. But now I've 3 different gridviews and I don't know if the position of item selecte it's from gridview 1,2 or 3. I supose that the great solutin it will be to pass the id resource (image) but I don't know how to pass it. Can you help me?
Is it possible to pass an object to the intent so i can access that object in my new activity?
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I get runtime exception as below.Can anyone please help what is the issue with this exception ? I know that Status bar is not a seperate activity. It is part of 'PhoneWindow'.
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The below passes in an extra message to a class called DisplayMessageActivity
[HIGH]
/** Called when the user clicks the Send button */
public void sendmessage(View view) {
Intent intent = new Intent(this, DisplayMessageActivity.class);
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edit_message);
String message = editText.getText().toString();
intent.putExtra(EXTRA_MESSAGE, message); // here extra value
startActivity(intent);
}
[/HIGH]
How can i pass in another value because at the other end i can only get Extra_message which can only be used once....
this is inside the DisplayMessageActivity
[HIGH]
Intent intent = getIntent();
String message = intent.getStringExtra(MainActivity.EXTRA_MESSAGE);
[/HIGH]
How to pass two values
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startActivity(browser);
I want it to store temporarily in my browser so my member page loads successfully.
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Tell me if I should provide some more code.
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