But, the ServiceManager is not an exported java API at all.
Thanks
Yi
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com>wrote:
> You are mixing two different things. You are creating a low-level core
> system service, and then trying to connect to it as if it is a high-level
> application service. If you are using service manager to publish it, you
> need to use service manager (in Java ServiceManager) to access it.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Yi Sun <beyo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dianne,
>> Thanks for the reply. Actually here is what I want to do:
>> On the service side (C code), reusing binder.c in the service_manager
>> directory. So my code will call
>> 1. binder_open,
>> 2. bio stuff to build an io block for adding service,
>> 3.binder_call to add service to service_manager.
>> 4. binder_loop to wait for requests. (Just do a quick prototype here, so
>> no multi-threads)
>>
>> On the client side (java), send request to the service I built and receive
>> replies.
>> Now, if I run /system/bin/service list, I can see my service like this:
>> # /system/bin/service list
>> Found 43 services:
>> 0 Binder.Test.IBindertest: []
>>
>> But, on the java side, I can not really get the binder object for this
>> service. The bindService call failed with following error messages:
>> W/ActivityManager( 581): Unable to start service Intent {
>> action=Binder.Test.IBindertest }: not found
>>
>> Yi
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com>wrote:
>>
>>> If you are writing a low-level system service, the high-level Service API
>>> (onBind() etc) is irrelevant. The aidl stuff is part of the primitive
>>> Binder IPC stuff; Service is a much higher-level facility built on top of
>>> it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, beyounn <beyo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ok, let me try out the AIDL part, it seems simpler. But I do have a
>>>> question about it and hope you could give more hits. I took a look on
>>>> the AIDL, it seems that on the service(server) side, we have to
>>>> implement onBind and other methods. For my case, does it mean that I
>>>> don't need to care about the service side works and only need to
>>>> implement something like RemoteServiceBinding.java in the example code
>>>> for my self?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Yi
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 30, 6:36 pm, Dave Sparks <davidspa...@android.com> wrote:
>>>> > You can write AIDL to generate your Java binding, or you can write
>>>> > your own native binding and put a JNI layer on top of that. If you
>>>> > don't plan on calling your service from native code, AIDL is much
>>>> > easier.
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mar 30, 6:08 pm, beyounn <beyo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > > Hello,
>>>> > > I'm writing a service by C. My code calls binder to add a service
>>>> > > called "myservice" into servicemanager. And I can add "myservice"
>>>> > > without any problem. Also, when I run "/system/bin/service list", it
>>>> > > shows the service added by me. The question is -- What is the
>>>> correct
>>>> > > way to access this service from my application that is written by
>>>> > > java?
>>>> > > Thanks
>>>> > > Yi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dianne Hackborn
>>> Android framework engineer
>>> hack...@android.com
>>>
>>> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
>>> provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public
>>> forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public
> forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
>
>
> >
>
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