They are all running in the same process, and in fact there is a method on
Activity to get the containing activity.  Just wire these together however
you want.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:07 AM, nick.titatingmembr...@googlemail.com <
nick.titatingmembr...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have a main activity class that launches a couple of my subordinate
> activities from a tabHost.
>
> Periodically (actually when I receive an incoming message on a
> socket), I want to inform the subordinate activities that application
> state has changed so that they can refresh their views.
>
> In Swing I could wire this together using something like a
> PropertyChangeListener. As far as I can see, the Android design
> philosophy requires creating an Intent and broadcasting to (as far as
> I can tell all) other activities that are running.
>
> This strikes me as overkill considering that I'm only trying to notify
> my own views of a model change. Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick.
>
> >
>


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