You're right it does sound terribly complex. Ill report back on my findings for anyone else who has a similar problem.
Thanks for your input, Mark. On Jun 10, 1:09 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > mafro wrote: > > I'm thinking I might need to write a service to handle my shortcut's > > Intent. The main application could then raise a similar Intent to the > > service to provide the same functionality whilst in the application. > > I do not know if you can create home screen shortcuts that send > broadcast Intents. If you can, then register a BroadcastReceiver in your > manifest to catch some custom action, and set up your shortcut to send a > broadcast Intent with that action. If what you need to do takes only a > few seconds, you can do the work within the BroadcastReceiver; > otherwise, have the receiver call startService() to trigger some > IntentService to do the real work. > > This seems terribly complex, compared to just giving the user a real > activity to work with, but, hey, it's your app... :-) > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, $35/Year --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
