[android-developers] Re: A simple question regarding inter-process communication.

2009-04-26 Thread M.Manjunatha
Hi All, I have a same kind of problem.. I have an activity in the another process, Say it is running as a back ground. I want to tell that activity to start something.. how do i do that?? Regards, Manjunatha On Mar 23, 4:13 am, me tun a...@tpg.com.au wrote: Yeah, I got my example above to

[android-developers] Re: A simple question regarding inter-process communication.

2009-03-22 Thread me tun
Yeah, I got my example above to work across processes with intents. I actually managed to send the soft keyboard character sequence and cursor position to another text edit view via a bundle in intent.PutExtra()... So basically, I can type in one application and have it appear in another one

[android-developers] Re: A simple question regarding inter-process communication.

2009-03-20 Thread David Turner
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Kenny yxw...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if intents are sent across Linux processes too. Very anxious to know the answer. Of course, they are transparently send across processes when necessary, or sent locally if the receiver is in the same process. This magic

[android-developers] Re: A simple question regarding inter-process communication.

2009-03-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
If you are communicating between activities, you wouldn't use interfaces at all -- all of the communication with be by sending Intents between them in various ways, and you can use Intent.putExtra() to put strings and other data in them. If you are communicating via a Service, you can use

[android-developers] Re: A simple question regarding inter-process communication.

2009-03-18 Thread me tun
Thanks Dianne, a colleague was telling me basically this too. Does it matter that the activities are running on different processes? On Mar 19, 3:50 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: If you are communicating between activities, you wouldn't use interfaces at all -- all of the