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I have a service 'MyService' running in background which launches an activity 'MyActivity' on certain event (code below). Intent i = new Intent(this, MyActivity.class); i.addFlags(Intent....

Possible Duplicate: Example: Communication between Activity and Service using Messaging I'm having a trouble with my service, I googled from yesterday to now and got nothing decent result. Now I ...

I have a service running, and would like to send a notification. Too bad, the notification object requires a Context, like an Activity, and not a Service. Do you know any way to by pass that ? I ...

I am trying to figure out how to show that my service is running with a persistent notification icon. Many examples I've found only send a dismissable message to the notification bar. I wanted a ...

I'm trying to return the result from an IntentSerivce to the mainactivity using an intent, but I can't get it to work. The IntentService receives the intent from the activity without a problem, does ...

Id like to enable bluetooth like in this example. However my class isnt a Activity but a Service and therefore I can't call startActivityForResult. How can i solve this problem?. I know there are ...

I have a Bound Service which responsible for downloading files and thus it knows the downloading status/progress. And the UI (Fragment or Activity) has to show/update download progress from the ...

I am having issue when sending data from Service to Activity through Notification , I click a Notification an Activity get invoked but when i try to add some parameters through bundle i am not able to ...

I m new in android, I'm not much aware about services.i have an activity class with a UI, i want to make this activity class runs in background, when i click the back button. how to make my activity ...

I am trying to update my UI in FirstActivity when I receive a notification but is confused by runOnUiThread , Runnable and Handler. Here is what I have: I am running FirstActivity and ...

i am writing a bluetooth app communicating with a bluetooth module. Actually it works very well. But i want the connection to stay established also while the app is in background and other apps are ...

I want to know what is the difference between a process and a service in an android app? I tried to study about this topic a lot, but did not clear my basics yet...please help?

I need to implement such a procedure: Start a background service Update the service with parameters (from UI - user input) After activity ended the service should keep on running and preform requests ...

I'm trying to add GPS tracking functionality to my app by writing a GPS tracking Service. I've been following the Android Developer materials on how to do this via Google Play Services, but I'm stuck ...

I am trying to write a service that comes with a MediaPlayer. I have different Activities accessing it, so I thought it would be best to peruse a Service. It works fine so far, I have also added a ...