On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:58 AM, krishna chaitanya <chaitanya.ju...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. When a service is started (startService()) its mentioned in the > list of services and its just another process. Can other application > make use of it? If yes how?
The other application can send commands to it (startService()) or perhaps bind to it (bindService()), if the service exposes some form of API. > 2. When an app starts a service, is the service the only property of > app or is it free for others ? I think its not. right? If it has to be > free for others it should keep an > intent filter, I guess. It needs an intent filter to let other applications know about how to craft Intents that identify it. > 3. Can we have a broadcast receiver to receive any kind of event ? Not by any conventional definition of "any kind of event". -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
