Hi, You do not need to specify an intent filter with action and data. You can use directly the component and class names in your intent.
Peli www.openintents.org On Jun 4, 10:02 am, aayush <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I had some conceptual doubts about Intents. Let me explain it with > respect to one of my upcoming applications: > > The application will be having three major logical facets: The call > control part, registration part and subscriptions (to a resource on > the remote server). > > I am thinking of designing these three logical facets as individual > android services. > > On application startup, i am thinking of creating a master > bootstrapping service, that invokes these other 3 services and starts > them up. Similarly, when the application needs to shut down, this > master service will perform the shutdown procedures. > > For doing so, i will need to use Intents as per the developer guide. > ( startService(Intent) for starting my services and stopService > (Intent) for stopping my services respectively). > > As my requirement is only to signal the service and start it, i will > specify the absolute class name of the target service to be started. > > My doubt comes here. The Intent object has 2 characteristics: action > and data. As my 3 logical services described above, do not have a UI > component (will be handled separately), providing an action is not > relevant for this use case. Data has to be represented as a URI. So > will the class name of the target service be specified as a URI ? > Secondly, class name here implies the entire package namespace of the > class (org.test....) ? > > Thanks in advance > > aayush --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
