Sending data from service to activity

Question

Hi, I am having issue for sending data from service to Activity through notification , I click a notification a activity get invoked but when i try to add some parameters through bundle i am not able to get the parameters in that called intent , I have gone through the link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1198558/how-to-send-parameters-from-a-notification-click-to-an-activity

but still no luck has any body occured with the same issue Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You have to modify the Manifest file as well.

Here is the example that works:

These variables and methods are members of Service class:

public static final String MOVEMENT_UPDATE = "com.client.gaitlink.AccelerationService.action.MOVEMENT_UPDATE";
    public static final String ACCELERATION_X = "com.client.gaitlink.AccelerationService.ACCELERATION_X";
    public static final String ACCELERATION_Y = "com.client.gaitlink.AccelerationService.ACCELERATION_Y";
    public static final String ACCELERATION_Z = "com.client.gaitlink.AccelerationService.ACCELERATION_Z";

private void announceAccelerationChanges()//this method sends broadcast messages
    {
     Intent intent = new Intent(MOVEMENT_UPDATE);
     intent.putExtra(ACCELERATION_X, accelerationX);
     intent.putExtra(ACCELERATION_Y, accelerationY);
     intent.putExtra(ACCELERATION_Z, accelerationZ);

     sendBroadcast(intent);
    }

And this are the methods from Main activity:

You have to register receiver in the onResume method:

    @Override
    public void onResume()
    {   

        IntentFilter movementFilter;
        movementFilter = new IntentFilter(AccelerationService.MOVEMENT_UPDATE);
        accelerationReceiver = new AccelerationServiceReceiver();
        registerReceiver(accelerationReceiver, movementFilter);


        startAccelerationService();

        super.onResume();
    }

    private void startAccelerationService()
    {
        startService(new Intent(this, AccelerationService.class));
    }

    public class AccelerationServiceReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver
    {
      @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)//this method receives broadcast messages. Be sure to modify AndroidManifest.xml file in order to enable message receiving
        {
         accelerationX = intent.getDoubleExtra(AccelerationService.ACCELERATION_X, 0);
         accelerationY = intent.getDoubleExtra(AccelerationService.ACCELERATION_Y, 0);
         accelerationZ = intent.getDoubleExtra(AccelerationService.ACCELERATION_Z, 0);

         announceSession();

         updateGUI();
        }
    }

This is the part of AndroidManifest.xml file that has to be set in order to receive broadcast messages:

<activity android:name=".GaitLink"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

                <action android:name="com.client.gaitlink.CommunicationService.action.ACTIVITY_STATUS_UPDATE" />

            </intent-filter>
        </activity>