Thanks a lot for your reply! So, is there any way to montior all the communication channels between Android apps inside the devices? Any existed mechanism or reference or codes?
Thanks a lot. M On Jun 14, 8:35 pm, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:33 AM, michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > the following is one statement, is it correct? : > > that applications do not run natively and inter-app communications > > must take place via IPC is not entirely true. There are ways for > > application to communicate without going through pre-defined OS > > provided channels. > > > Thanks a lot for your reply > > > M > > There are lots of ways for apps to communicate: > -- Intents, > -- Content providers, > -- Direct RPC a la AIDL, > -- Writing to a shared file, > -- etc..., the list goes on. > > By far, the most common paradigms are using either intents, or RPC > (either with AIDL or a Messenger, which is built on top of AIDL). > Using intents are a fairly lightweight asynchronous communication > mechanism, though their expressiveness is somewhat limited, whereas > direct RPC ties the apps together more, and you might not need it if > you're sending simple messages. > > Your statement doesn't make any sense, by the way. Whether apps run > naively or not depends on the vm implementation. They definitely run > on top of the vm, as everything in Android does, but they may or may > not be run in compiled code via JIT. They have to communicate using > the mechanisms provided., but as I said there's a wide range of things > possible, even using > ashmem,http://www.androidenea.com/2010/03/share-memory-using-ashmem-and-bind... > > kris > > kris -- 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
