Interesting question. I would think no, at least to directly, because as a "Linux service" (process), your process is running outside of Android's Activity management, so sending/receiving Intents to trigger activities such as launching an Android app wouldn't work.
One approach would be to try to integrate the Intent library functions into your process and attach the process to the Android layer somehow; not that I knew of though. Extracting this kind of stuff from the Android framework would be expected to be messy to say the least. So you'll fall back to building something yourself. Create an Android Service that acts as a server to your Linux process and use the Socket library for IPC. I've used that approach to send data from a process back to an Android Activity; worked well. In your scenario, the Linux process writes to the socket which releases the Android service to send out an Intent to launch the app in question. Only problem that I see from far is that Android doesn't "like" long running services, with Google pontificating how these weren't needed in the first place (not). I'd give it a shot though, trying out a "sticky" service that keeps hanging around, justifiably so, as your Android Service wouldn't be expected to consume much in the way of resources. On May 24, 3:01 pm, "John Bachus" <singerisl...@gmx.com> wrote: > Can I launch an Android Application from a Linux service? > If so, do you have sample code to do this? -- 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
