Perhaps it is obvious but after several hours can't see it clear... I had used 'other' intents in previous apps , but not in this exact scenario.
I have 2 apps, A and B, both 'controlled' by me, running in a device.
My purpose is to send some data from app A to a Service in app B, and I want to use intents
If I follow the tutorial and examples HERE, it works correctly sending and receiving data with implicit intents between activities.
But as what I want to call is a Service in app B, the first error that I receive is that the intent should be explicit.
Any idea of what I am missing?
Just in case someone is interested, here there are different tests and partial code....none of the combinations worked, sometimes simply doing nothing and other times throwing runtime error
I have 2 apps, A and B, both 'controlled' by me, running in a device.
My purpose is to send some data from app A to a Service in app B, and I want to use intents
If I follow the tutorial and examples HERE, it works correctly sending and receiving data with implicit intents between activities.
But as what I want to call is a Service in app B, the first error that I receive is that the intent should be explicit.
Any idea of what I am missing?
Just in case someone is interested, here there are different tests and partial code....none of the combinations worked, sometimes simply doing nothing and other times throwing runtime error
REQUESTER (app A: thisapp.b4a.intentrequestor)
' None of these tests worked for me
PROVIDER (app B: thisapp.b4a.intentprovider)
mService code
Manifest
' None of these tests worked for me
B4X:
Sub test1
Dim jo As JavaObject = Me
Dim jc As JavaObject
jc.InitializeContext
jo.RunMethod("sendit",Array(jc))
Return
End Sub
#if JAVA
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.ComponentName;
public void sendit(Context cx){
Intent intent = new Intent("thisapp.b4a.intentprovider.mservice");
intent.setPackage("thisapp.b4a.intentprovider");
startService(intent);
}
#End If
'**** another test *****
Sub explicitIntent
Dim in2 As Intent
in2.Initialize("thisapp.b4a.intentprovider.mservice","")
Dim jo As JavaObject = in2
jo.RunMethod("setPackage", Array("thisapp.b4a.intentprovider"))
in2.SetComponent("thisapp.b4a.intentprovider.mservice")
StartService(in2)
End SubPROVIDER (app B: thisapp.b4a.intentprovider)
mService code
B4X:
' This is where I want to arrive....
Sub Service_Start (StartingIntent As Intent)
Log("PROVIDER (SERVICE) CALLED!!!!!!******************************")
'...
End SubManifest
B4X:
AddApplicationText(
<service
android:enabled="true"
android:name=".mservice"
android:exported="true"
android:label="My Service" >
</service>)
' Also have tested intent-filters for the implicit intents, which later discarded ...