Launching application on Event?

Androider · by **Androider** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:53 am

Hi,
Can the application launched automatically when certian event occurs? Similar to Push Registry technology in J2ME.

Tnx.

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:01 am

Hello Androider,

please have a look at the :src: Launch Activity on System/Emulator Startup-Tutorial.

The process is pretty similar every time. You choose an Intent (or more), which are sent out by the AndroidOS, and:

a.) set up an IntentReceiver in your AndroidManifest.xml to make it start your Application. Examples: here or here
b.) directly start your application (Done here).

Hope I could help you

.

Regards,
plusminus

Androider · by **Androider** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:41 pm

I tried both.. like DIAL and BOOT_COMPLETED, Working fine.

Let me be more specific. Suppose if i want to launch it when the Alaram rings?

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:54 pm

Hello Androider,

Androider wrote:.. i want to launch it when the ALARM rings?

what do you mean with ALARM :?:

:

You can setup an Alarm to be waked up like this, could be used for a wakeup-application ( click for more infos on Alarm-Manager ):

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                try {
 
                        android.os.IServiceManager sm = android.os.ServiceManagerNative
 
                                        .getDefault();
 
                        android.app.IAlarmManager alarmService = android.app.IAlarmManager.Stub
 
                                        .asInterface(sm.getService("alarm"));
 
                        long timeToTrigger = System.currentTimeMillis() + 60 * 1000; // 60 seconds after now
 
                        Intent myCustomIntent = new Intent("MY.APPLICATION.WAKEUP.ACTION");
 
                        alarmService.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, timeToTrigger,
 
                                        myCustomIntent);
 
                } catch (DeadObjectException e) {
 
                }
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My code is untested, but looks good

Should work at least very similar...

Hope I could help you

Regards,
plusminus

Launching application on Event?

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