if I want the service to be running after the app has been closed (like a media player app), then I need to have it in a separate process and then the localservice api demo model, won't work, right?
tia. On Sep 9, 9:36 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Best: you probably don't need to have the service running in a separate > process from your code, so use the LocalService api demo model, and just do > direct calls to Java objects both ways without dealing with aidl at all. > > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > sdphil wrote: > > > i understand how to call methods on a service (aidl, etc...), but how > > > does a service event information out. how does it generate events > > > back to the application? > > > Option #1: Broadcast an Intent using sendBroadcast() > > > Option #2: Implement a callback mechanism, where the client creates an > > AIDL interface and sends a corresponding object to the service, which > > uses that object to communicate back to the client > > > You can see examples of the latter in the RemoteClientEx and > > RemoteServiceEx examples from my Advanced Android book: > > >http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/e50e087577f8b28e72735... > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > >http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Need help for your Android OSS project?http://wiki.andmob.org/hado > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
