I've got a live wallpaper that I'd like to communicate with from an Activity in the same package. I've never done any work with services. Would I be able to use the Local Service pattern, or am I restricted because my service is a live wallpaper, and need to use Intents or AIDL?
I think the flow would go something like this, please correct me where my process might fail: 1. Preview the live wallpaper from the Live Wallpaper Chooser 2. Go into my custom Settings activity 3. Click on a "Screen Shot" button or preference to open up a "Screen Shot" activity 4. Send a message to my wallpaper, asking for a screen shot bitmap to be rendered 5. The wallpaper service receives the message and renders its current visuals to a bitmap in the app's data directory 6. The wallpaper sends a message back to the activity indicating success and location of the bitmap 7. The activity receives this message, loads the bitmap from the given location, and displays it to the user for further processing / sharing The parts I'm not sure about are the message passing in 4-7. -- 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
