[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
I think you can make a service which will be running in background all the time and it can force your activity to come in background whenevr required without using notification. UNTOUCHABILITY IS SIN SO KEEP IN TOUCH On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:46 AM, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: First of all thanks for your wonderful cooperation. On android mobile if at all we get an incoming call while interacting with another application, incoming call indication is being displayed on the screen with an activity instead of notifying user with notification. I think it is against to android development rules.But we can't notify user with notification in this particular situation. On Oct 20, 4:28 pm, Bartosz Lambach bartosz.lamb...@gmail.com wrote: Please, read this article before you do that: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/seamlessness.html Regards, Bartosz On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:17 PM, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. But the thing here is if at all we click on the notification only intent will bring the Activity up. I want to bring the activity to foreground without clicking any thing.For that what can i do. Can i bring the activity to foreground using notifications without clicking any button or do i need to use any other concept? On Oct 20, 3:31 pm, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shiva, try this, may help... whichever activity, that you want to put in the foreground, use an Intent, by setting this flag... intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT); Thanks Nithin On Oct 20, 3:20 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp:// developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
Hi Shiva, try this, may help... whichever activity, that you want to put in the foreground, use an Intent, by setting this flag... intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT); Thanks Nithin On Oct 20, 3:20 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
Thanks for your replay. But the thing here is if at all we click on the notification only intent will bring the Activity up. I want to bring the activity to foreground without clicking any thing.For that what can i do. Can i bring the activity to foreground using notifications without clicking any button or do i need to use any other concept? On Oct 20, 3:31 pm, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shiva, try this, may help... whichever activity, that you want to put in the foreground, use an Intent, by setting this flag... intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT); Thanks Nithin On Oct 20, 3:20 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
Reread RichardC's reply. There's good reason to believe that the platform doesn't allow - indeed shouldn't allow - arbitrary apps to bring their activities to the foreground without user action. Even if the platform does allow it, I have to agree with RichardC that it's not a good idea. If the user has moved on from your activity to another, why do you know better than they that yours is more important? I suggest you rethink your architecture to achieve your desired result without using this technique. For example: - update a database from a background service when the network action of interest occurs - update your activity's GUI from the database the next time the USER brings it to the foreground String On Oct 20, 12:17 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. But the thing here is if at all we click on the notification only intent will bring the Activity up. I want to bring the activity to foreground without clicking any thing.For that what can i do. Can i bring the activity to foreground using notifications without clicking any button or do i need to use any other concept? On Oct 20, 3:31 pm, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shiva, try this, may help... whichever activity, that you want to put in the foreground, use an Intent, by setting this flag... intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT); Thanks Nithin On Oct 20, 3:20 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
use a service to capture that network events. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:57 AM, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
Even if the platform does allow it, I have to agree with RichardC that it's not a good idea. If the user has moved on from your activity to another, why do you know better than they that yours is more important? As soon as i receive network event can i create a new activity and destroy previous activity if at all it is not active. There should be some feasible design because android is handling incoming call indication .I think it is also handling similar type of problems. Please guide me in a right way. On Oct 20, 5:49 pm, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: Reread RichardC's reply. There's good reason to believe that the platform doesn't allow - indeed shouldn't allow - arbitrary apps to bring their activities to the foreground without user action. Even if the platform does allow it, I have to agree with RichardC that it's not a good idea. If the user has moved on from your activity to another, why do you know better than they that yours is more important? I suggest you rethink your architecture to achieve your desired result without using this technique. For example: - update a database from a background service when the network action of interest occurs - update your activity's GUI from the database the next time the USER brings it to the foreground String On Oct 20, 12:17 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. But the thing here is if at all we click on the notification only intent will bring the Activity up. I want to bring the activity to foreground without clicking any thing.For that what can i do. Can i bring the activity to foreground using notifications without clicking any button or do i need to use any other concept? On Oct 20, 3:31 pm, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shiva, try this, may help... whichever activity, that you want to put in the foreground, use an Intent, by setting this flag... intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT); Thanks Nithin On Oct 20, 3:20 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
RichardC and String are correct. You can't and shouldn't do this. Re-design your app so that the user does not need to push a GUI to the front at any possible given time. Also, your background service that waits in the background may have been killed by the Android OS due to low memory or low resource; It may not even be running when your network-event happens If you did manage to have your activity pop to the foreground without any user interaction and then put your app on the market, expect quite a few bad comments. Why the phone-dialer can get to the foreground automatically: It's a phone! Even the SMS and voice-mail notifications don't automatically show a UI. They show notifications. On Oct 20, 9:42 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Even if the platform does allow it, I have to agree with RichardC that it's not a good idea. If the user has moved on from your activity to another, why do you know better than they that yours is more important? As soon as i receive network event can i create a new activity and destroy previous activity if at all it is not active. There should be some feasible design because android is handling incoming call indication .I think it is also handling similar type of problems. Please guide me in a right way. On Oct 20, 5:49 pm, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: Reread RichardC's reply. There's good reason to believe that the platform doesn't allow - indeed shouldn't allow - arbitrary apps to bring their activities to the foreground without user action. Even if the platform does allow it, I have to agree with RichardC that it's not a good idea. If the user has moved on from your activity to another, why do you know better than they that yours is more important? I suggest you rethink your architecture to achieve your desired result without using this technique. For example: - update a database from a background service when the network action of interest occurs - update your activity's GUI from the database the next time the USER brings it to the foreground String On Oct 20, 12:17 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. But the thing here is if at all we click on the notification only intent will bring the Activity up. I want to bring the activity to foreground without clicking any thing.For that what can i do. Can i bring the activity to foreground using notifications without clicking any button or do i need to use any other concept? On Oct 20, 3:31 pm, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shiva, try this, may help... whichever activity, that you want to put in the foreground, use an Intent, by setting this flag... intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT); Thanks Nithin On Oct 20, 3:20 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html --
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
I don't understand why do you want to force to display your activity. Is this a must for your requirement? It would be better to display notification from a background service, clicking the notification will forward to your activity screen. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:42 AM, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Even if the platform does allow it, I have to agree with RichardC that it's not a good idea. If the user has moved on from your activity to another, why do you know better than they that yours is more important? As soon as i receive network event can i create a new activity and destroy previous activity if at all it is not active. There should be some feasible design because android is handling incoming call indication .I think it is also handling similar type of problems. Please guide me in a right way. On Oct 20, 5:49 pm, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: Reread RichardC's reply. There's good reason to believe that the platform doesn't allow - indeed shouldn't allow - arbitrary apps to bring their activities to the foreground without user action. Even if the platform does allow it, I have to agree with RichardC that it's not a good idea. If the user has moved on from your activity to another, why do you know better than they that yours is more important? I suggest you rethink your architecture to achieve your desired result without using this technique. For example: - update a database from a background service when the network action of interest occurs - update your activity's GUI from the database the next time the USER brings it to the foreground String On Oct 20, 12:17 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. But the thing here is if at all we click on the notification only intent will bring the Activity up. I want to bring the activity to foreground without clicking any thing.For that what can i do. Can i bring the activity to foreground using notifications without clicking any button or do i need to use any other concept? On Oct 20, 3:31 pm, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shiva, try this, may help... whichever activity, that you want to put in the foreground, use an Intent, by setting this flag... intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT); Thanks Nithin On Oct 20, 3:20 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp:// developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva
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You cannot just bring your app into foreground. Its against android rules. You have to use notification mechanism to inform user about an event. Regards, Batosz On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
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Please, read this article before you do that: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/seamlessness.html Regards, Bartosz On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:17 PM, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. But the thing here is if at all we click on the notification only intent will bring the Activity up. I want to bring the activity to foreground without clicking any thing.For that what can i do. Can i bring the activity to foreground using notifications without clicking any button or do i need to use any other concept? On Oct 20, 3:31 pm, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shiva, try this, may help... whichever activity, that you want to put in the foreground, use an Intent, by setting this flag... intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT); Thanks Nithin On Oct 20, 3:20 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can i bring an activity to foreground from background manually?
First of all thanks for your wonderful cooperation. On android mobile if at all we get an incoming call while interacting with another application, incoming call indication is being displayed on the screen with an activity instead of notifying user with notification. I think it is against to android development rules.But we can't notify user with notification in this particular situation. On Oct 20, 4:28 pm, Bartosz Lambach bartosz.lamb...@gmail.com wrote: Please, read this article before you do that:http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/seamlessness.html Regards, Bartosz On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:17 PM, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. But the thing here is if at all we click on the notification only intent will bring the Activity up. I want to bring the activity to foreground without clicking any thing.For that what can i do. Can i bring the activity to foreground using notifications without clicking any button or do i need to use any other concept? On Oct 20, 3:31 pm, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shiva, try this, may help... whichever activity, that you want to put in the foreground, use an Intent, by setting this flag... intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT); Thanks Nithin On Oct 20, 3:20 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: What i want to implement is i have a service which will wait on a socket for network events. On some network events service has to notify the application activity to update GUI elements. If at all my activity is not running how can i update GUI.At any i have to update GUI as soon as network events occurred. On Oct 20, 2:54 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: I have had a quick look and can't see anyway to do what you want (there might be a way I just can't find it). One of the reasons if I read about (on other platforms) for NOT implementing bring my app to the front and make it active right now is that it soon degenerates into application wars, with multiple application each trying to be the top-most application. In this situation no one wins and the end-user typically uninstalls both apps. Another way to think about this is - should the end-user be interrupted right now? What if they are doing something more importent than your application such as trying to phone the emergency services. -- RichardC On Oct 20, 10:39 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: After studying some articles regarding notifications .I have understood something that after clicking on the notification only specified activities are activated or brought into foreground. But in my application i have to bring an activity as soon as a background event occurred. How can i implement that scenario using Notifications ? Thanks, -Siva. On Oct 20, 1:24 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your replay. Can u give me a working example for letting an activity to foreground using notifications. On Oct 19, 6:17 pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Notificationhttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
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Notification http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html -- RichardC On Oct 19, 1:57 pm, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hai, In my application i wait on socket for network events.On some events i have to bring activity into foreground(make activity as running) if at all it is not in the foreground. How can i do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated highly. Thanks, -Siva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
