I’ve blogged this question with pictures here: http://tinyurl.com/9hwdva
I am writing a component that makes certain functionality available to any application running on an Android device (e.g. an advertising service, stock ticker cache, Snowball server, etc). This functionality is useful for application developers, but not interesting to actual users i.e. my component should be included as part of a new application, but not require the end user to explicitly install the additional component themselves. I expect that over time multiple applications installed on the phone will want to communicate with my component. As each new application will have a different certificate, I want to communicate between applications using an Android Content Provider. To save resources on the device (networking, caching, etc) only one instance of my component should be appointed to handle all queries. This works well as Android only registers the first Content Provider for a given URI and then ignores the rest (throwing an “WARN/ PackageManager: Skipping provider name xxxx name already used” error each time a new one is installed). However if the registered Content Provider is uninstalled, it will immediately break all the other applications that rely on it, even though other instances of the component still exist. Questions: - Does anyone have any suggestions on how to better handle this situation? - If I could reregister Content Providers I could handle situations like this, and upgrade components when newer versions are installed. Perhaps the Android OS could also handle this situation better, by tracking Content Provider naming collisions? - Should I be looking at other communication methods to solve this issue? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
