android-service

How can Take picture from front camera in service without showing camera on screen. I have service class public class PhotoTakingService extends Service { //Camera variables //a surface holder private SurfaceHolder sHolder; //a variable to control the camera private Camera mCamera; //the camera parameters private Parameters parameters; boolean mPreviewRunning = false; /** * Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); } @Override public void onStart(Intent intent,int startId) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onStart(intent,startId

I'm developing an application that is installed on the system partition and I would like to know if it's possible to get a screenshot of the current foreground application from a service. Of course, the application being any third party app. I'm not interested in security issues or anything related to that matter. I only want to get a snapshot of the current foreground third party app. Note: I'm aware of the /system/bin/screencap solution but I'm looking for a more elegant alternative that does everything programmatically. The method that I'm going to describe below will let you to

I am trying to get user location either network location or gps location or both. for that i am running a background service which implements LocationListener . i added all the require permissions in the manifest file also. here is my service public class GetLocation extends Service implements LocationListener { LocationManager lm; Location networkLocation, gpsLocation; @Override public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); lm = (LocationManager) getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE); if (lm.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) { lm.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0

I've an Android 6.0 Application with an unbound android service connecting to Google API for receiving Fused API Location Provider Updates. For this i need the ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION Permission. Everthing was working fine untill the Update to Marshmallow. Now I need to implement the new Permission Model for my App. I've read that it is not possible to check android 6.0 Permissions directly from within a service. All of my Location Update Receiver and Google APi Client connect part is handled by and in the service, and I would linke to keep it there! Is it possible to check the Permissions once

I'm trying to write a service that get the heart rate on Gear Live, following the question here Get Heart Rate from "Sensor" Samsung Gear Live If I put this part Log.d(TAG, "prepare to call getSystemService"); mSensorManager = ((SensorManager)getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE)); Log.d(TAG, "after calling getSystemService"); at onCreate() of an activity, it works fine. But if I move that to a Service, it throws a NPE. I tried to add this. in front of `getSystemService, doesn't help. Any tip, thanks I figured it out, the reason is that inside getSystemService , there's a call to this function: