[android-developers] Re: Communicating from Android Service to an Activity

2010-05-21 Thread FrankG
Thanks a lot for this hint. But in my case I have an independent GUI in a seperate prozess. I must check whether I can avoid this and use this local binding pattern. Thanks a lot ! Frank On 19 Mai, 09:46, redders redders6...@googlemail.com wrote: Looking into this further - I now

Re: [android-developers] Re: Communicating from Android Service to an Activity

2010-05-21 Thread Edward Hinchliffe
I see - just to be clear - you'll only be operating a GUI in a separate process if you've either got 2 separate applications, or one application where an activity within it explicitly specifies it wants to run in a separate process. I only say this because I didn't understand the term 'process'

[android-developers] Re: Communicating from Android Service to an Activity

2010-05-19 Thread FrankG
At first many thanks to Mark Murphy for his very detailed answer. To the last post : I must say I use currently a mixture between 1) and 2) .. In my case the service uses Intents to inform othter apps. And the services provides an interface via aidl. But I also thinking about a pure 1) Intent

[android-developers] Re: Communicating from Android Service to an Activity

2010-05-19 Thread redders
Looking into this further - I now understand the local binding pattern that Mark mentioned. There's a good example in the api section of the code examples that ship with the android SDK. Essentially as we are not using more than one process there's no need for IPC (*inter process* communication)

[android-developers] Re: Communicating from Android Service to an Activity

2010-05-18 Thread redders
Hi, I have a similar question. My application has a long running service that acts as a TCP client. There is also an activity which needs to be able to pass messages to the service which will then send them to the TCP server. In turn, the service needs to 'forward' the reply it gets from the TCP

[android-developers] Re: Communicating from Android Service to an Activity

2010-05-03 Thread madmax
Thanks a lot Mark! This is exactly what i was looking for.. It works.. Regards, Prafull. On May 1, 6:25 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: madmaxwrote:              I have an AndroidServicethat runs indefinitely That's not possible and is not a good idea in general:

[android-developers] Re: Communicating from Android Service to an Activity

2010-05-03 Thread FrankG
Hello Mark, I have short question to your example : If I understood it right, the Broadcast from the WeatherPlusService will not start up the WeatherPlus Activity ? So how must the example be changed, that the first broadcast will startup the activity and the next ones are normal broadcast to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Communicating from Android Service to an Activity

2010-05-03 Thread Mark Murphy
FrankG wrote: I have short question to your example : If I understood it right, the Broadcast from the WeatherPlusService will not start up the WeatherPlus Activity ? Correct. In this case, the WeatherPlus activity is already running. So how must the example be changed, that the first