[android-developers] Re: Sharing a native surface between 2 processes

2009-06-02 Thread Mick
Thanks for the response. I'm still interested in using a surface between two processes, A and B. specifically, A is a Dalvik Java application (an Activity with a View), and B is a native process. I'd like to be able to manipulate A's display from B, but can't seem to get it right: As I mentioned

[android-developers] Re: Sharing a native surface between 2 processes

2009-05-25 Thread Dianne Hackborn
This isn't really supported -- with a SurfaceView, the creator/manager of the surface is the window manager, and the app is the one drawing into the surface. When you hand that surface to another process, you end up with two drawing clients, which may or may not work as luck may have it, but is no