Activity, BroadcastReceiver, ContentProvider, or Service.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:58 PM, John Lussmyer <johnlussm...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I've been looking to see if there is a relatively simple way for 2 apps to
> share a tiny bit of data.
> So far, I haven't found any.
>
> 1) SharedPreferences - aren't shared.
> 2) MemoryFile in Shared Memory - there appears to be no way to share these
> between apps.
> 3) Internal Storage - separate apps can't write to each others area, even
> if they have the same userid.
> 4) External storage - may not exist.
>
> So, in order to send 10 bytes of data to another app, it seems that I'll
> have to create a new Activity and have it respond to an Intent().
> Is that really the only way to do this?
>
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