Re: [android-developers] Re: Interaction with other apps

[Kostya Vasilyev]

09.01.2011 11:34, emafuma пишет:

I was wodering if it's not possible any kind on interaction with
existing apps, I don't mean to modify them but just get data (maybe
just adding a button to a menu) to feed my background app that can
then process those data (mails, SMS) and show the result of its
processing.

Let's say there a mail tlking about a particular artist, my software
can recognize the artist and give uset concert dates.


What if there is an email that has your login / password details for 
online banking?


And some other application gets access to it?

And then fires an intent to share this information with yet another 
application, which looks like an ad-supported game, so you've granted it 
Internet access?


And you wake up the next morning, and see that all the money has been 
transferred out of your account?


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Re: [android-developers] Re: Interaction with other apps

[Kostya Vasilyev]

09.01.2011 12:58, emafuma пишет:

My question was more about the feasibility of interactions between a
mail app and another application I could develop.
I'm guessing there are no way to communicate between them, am I right?


This can be implemented the other way around.

Define an interface for your application so that other applications can 
use it (a broadcast Intent, a service responding to Intent commands or 
using a custom binder, etc.)


Convince authors of other applications to add support for yours.

Then the user would be able to perform lookups you're taking about, if 
he wanted to.


But grabbing on-screen text across applications is a security hole, 
that's why there is no support for it.


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