On Nov 24, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Venky wrote: > I search a lot and found this example. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6365273/monodroid-for-android-service > > How can another apk consume the music service?
Depends on how, exactly, you want to consume the Service. For the sample code at [0], you can use strings instead of `typeof` in the `new Intent(...)` call, which will allow you to start and stop Services located in a different .apk. If you want to do anything with that Service...things get more interesting. You can subclass existing services such as SpellCheckerService [1], which would allow other apps to communicate through predefined interfaces (e.g. ISpellCheckerSessionListener [2, 3]. If you need to use a new interface, then you're entering the world of AIDL, for which there is currently no C# support. To use AIDL, you'll need to include the .java sources into your project (Build action: AndroidJavaSource) and you may need to write some custom Java "glue" code to facilitate things. - Jon [0] https://github.com/gshackles/Sample-Projects/blob/master/MonoDroid/MonoDroidSamples/MonoDroidSamples/DemoActivities/Services/ServiceActivity.cs [1] http://androidapi.xamarin.com/?link=T:Android.Service.Textservice.SpellCheckerService [2] http://androidapi.xamarin.com/?link=T%3aAndroid.Views.TextService.SpellCheckerSession.ISpellCheckerSessionListener [3] http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SpellChecker/HelloSpellChecker/src/com/example/android/hellospellchecker/HelloSpellCheckerActivity.html _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
