What is the difference between 2 ways of interaction between applications on android:
1. implementing service in app #1 and using it in app #2.
2. handling intentions and posting answer intention.
Interactions are supposed to be asynchronous.
What are pros and contras for each?
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Hi folks,
I'm developing on an application at the moment which contains quite a lot of personal user information - things like Facebook contacts, etc ... Now, one of the things I want to be able to do (and have done, quite effectively) is open up parts of the application to "3rd Party" applications, using Android's build-in inter-proces...
If it must implement with AIDL?
And please kindly provide an example, thanks.
EDIT:
There are several solutions, Does anyone know which is better?
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Ideally I would like to send an object of type
ArrayList<ArrayList<ASimpleClass>>
from a remote service in one APK to an application in another. I'm not sure if this is even possible as the API demo code suggests that it isn't:
/**
* This demonstrates the basic types that you can use as parameters
* and return values in AIDL.
*...