On Aug 19, 1:42 am, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed, ideally widgets should probably run as separate processes with > their own limited permissions - maybe as a service? The question is > how they could display themselves and interact with the user - maybe > through AIDL calls? Would this make sense?
I expect we will add platform-level support for this in the future. The main piece of work needed is a facility to distribute view hierarchies across processes. With that in place, ActivityGroup/ LocalActivityManager could grow to allow you to instantiate activities running in other processes, and embed their UI into the parent activity's view hierarchy. It's a non-trivial amount of work, but certainly possible at the platform level. Trying to implement such a thing without modifying the platform would be much more dicey. You could probably do something simple with a service and sending bitmaps from it back to the container... but that would be less than ideal. :} --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new Android 0.9 SDK beta! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
