I'm not quite sure what you're asking but it seems you are not in full understanding of Intents.
The "action" field is just a string value used with BroadcastReceivers and their IntentFilter, it is as named, the description of what action to take, it is not for the launching of Services or even Activities. For this you use the class property, like so: Intent i = new Intent(); i.setClass(context, MyService.class); context.startService(i); //or context.startService(new Intent(context, MyService.class)); You can also use the setComponent() and various other things but that is the simplest way to start a Service. I hope that helps, though I have to mention, your application design sounds very bad, 3 long running services from app launch till terminate? This is not very considerate of other applications, your services do not need to exist if they are not doing anything. Also you should not rely on being told when your application process is being shutdown, there is no guarantee you're going to get this message. On Jun 4, 6:02 pm, aayush <abhatnagar192...@gmail.com> 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
