[android-developers] Re: Singleton Service ???

2010-03-26 Thread Kitzy
You can call stopSelf () from within a service, or stopService (Intent) from another activity. Sincerely, -Kitzy On Feb 23, 5:05 am, MobDev developm...@mobilaria.com wrote: Lol, I see I actually forgot to place the question in the first part of my previous post :D That is : if

Re: [android-developers] Re: Singleton Service ???

2010-03-26 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Please look at the various service examples in ApiDemos, they cover a lot of different ways to interact with them. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:05 AM, MobDev developm...@mobilaria.com wrote: Lol, I see I actually forgot to place the question in the first part of my previous post :D That is : if

[android-developers] Re: Singleton Service ???

2010-02-23 Thread MobDev
actually I had a question regarding this... I made a service which plays an MP3, so it uses a single instance (in the whole service) of MediaPlayer.. Still I noticed (by mistake because the Service didn't get closed while exiting my main Activity) that the Service obviously kept running, but when

[android-developers] Re: Singleton Service ???

2010-02-23 Thread MobDev
Lol, I see I actually forgot to place the question in the first part of my previous post :D That is : if a Service already is running, is there some way to bind to it when my app starts up, and/or programmatically check if it's already running ? So that I won't be having 2 separate Service

[android-developers] Re: Singleton Service ???

2010-02-11 Thread MobDev
well, thats a good thing especially in my situation :D Now my next most prioritized question, can I communicate with a Service ? Are there some kind of interfaces for that ? Btw, you are a fast responder Mark ;) Thanks for your interest and time :D On 11 feb, 17:11, Mark Murphy

Re: [android-developers] Re: Singleton Service ???

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Murphy
Now my next most prioritized question, can I communicate with a Service ? Absolutely. Are there some kind of interfaces for that ? The SDK samples will demonstrate the local binding pattern. You can also find an example of that here:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Singleton Service ???

2010-02-11 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Or use startService() to send commands to it. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Now my next most prioritized question, can I communicate with a Service ? Absolutely. Are there some kind of interfaces for that ? The SDK samples will demonstrate