[android-developers] Developing Stand alone service

[Fakhri Abbas]

How to develop application with service only without any activities,
so the user can't open the application but other applications can use
the service

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Re: [android-developers] Developing Stand alone service

[{ Devdroid }]

On 3 October 2010 15:26, Fakhri Abbas  wrote:
> How to develop application with service only without any activities,
> so the user can't open the application but other applications can use
> the service

Having Activity does not automatically mean you need to show the UI.
So you can have Actvity subclass that fires up service during onCreate()
and then do finish() and it shall be it.

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Re: [android-developers] Developing Stand alone service

[TreKing]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Fakhri Abbas wrote:

> How to develop application with service only without any activities, so the
> user can't open the application but other applications can use the service
>

Are these other applications written by you? Or is this something you want
others to tap into?

Either way, you should be able to explicitly start the Service or register a
BroadCastReceiver for events (perhaps that you define for others to
broadcast) that then starts the service as necessary.

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TreKing  - Chicago
transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

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