I did something that works but I am still a bit confused.
The manifest in App A, App B and App C, is the same,
as the user doesn't have to nstall App A. But I still want the my
service to be running.
So in all the manifests I did something like
<service android:enabled="true" android:exported="true"
android:name=".TestService">
<intent-filter>
<category
android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<action
android:name="com.myprivate.action.MARK" />
</intent-filter>
</service>
and in all
App A/B/C/D.Activity.onCreate() {
...
Intent intent = new Intent("com.myprivate.action.MARK");
startService(intent);
...
}
And the outcome that startService doesn't create the service if it is
already exist.
And the "Package Name" of the service is of the FIRST installation.
I don't understand why while there are 2 (or more) identical intent
filters, we don't get an error message
of collision.
In case of Activities we can manually choose which activity will
handle the intent.
On May 16, 1:36 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Mark Cz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks Mark,
> > I haven't clarify myself in the previous form.
> > I have two (or more) apks/applications, When the user opens one of my
> > applications (called APP A), it starts a service,
> > when the user opens another application (called APP B), it doesn't
> > start a service but uses the service. But i want to get this behavior
> > when the
> > user chooses to open first APP B and then APP A.
>
> startService() starts the service if it is not running. bindService()
> with FLAG_AUTO_CREATE will start the service if it is not running.
> Whether these are called from App A, App B, App C, App D, etc. makes
> no difference. App A will always be the one "running" the service,
> insofar as it will run in App A's process.
>
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