On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ted Scott <t...@hootinholler.com> wrote: > I have a service that obtains and stores sample data from a web service. It > is triggered by alarms, gets a sample which may or may not be new, stores it > in my DB. > > At that point, if a new sample was added, and the activity that lists the > samples is active, I want to notify it to refresh the cursor to include the > new sample. If the activity isn't running, I don't care because it will be > fine when it launches. If I set up a receiver and send a broadcast won't the > broadcast cause it to launch if the activity isn't running? That is behavior > that I don't want.
Use an ordered broadcast to notify your foreground activity, and possibly display a Notification if the activity is not in the foreground: http://commonsware.com/blog/2010/08/11/activity-notification-ordered-broadcast.html Here is a sample demonstrating this: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Broadcast/Ordered Or, have your activity get its data from the service via a ContentProvider, and use a ContentObserver (which happens automagically if you are using a CursorLoader). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 4.0 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
