android-service

I have create a application in Android that using a camera I can measure out the distance between user's face to the phone screen. Problem description: Now I want to make it running background so that the feature is available while I am using other applications. It means I should open camera in service without preview, and process it in service. What I did yet: I referred some questions here How to record video from background of application : Android How to use Android Camera in Background? Taking picture from camera without preview API level 16 My Service File import android.app.Service;

Status: Really thankful to all who helped and guided here and in part-1! I have made code out of research and help given and have put that working code in EDIT-1 . Criticisms are welcomed to make the code better. Scenario: I asked the question mention in Part-1, but for some reason I can persistently cannot make a design and correct strategy with code that has true integration and sanity. It was a lengthy question and the question nor answer could have been concluded or finalized in just one episode, so I have made this second part as a synopsis. May be I am incompetent or just disturbed

We have a demo android application (Android 4.0.3) that runs voice recognition as a service, and (continuosly) logs the results of the recognition on the view. Everything is working fine in our smartphones. We would like to replicate this scenario in a Google Glass immersion application, but we always have this error message when we try to start the service: no selected voice recognition service Are there some known limitations? Or have someone figured out how to resolve this kind of problem? Thanks in advance This is some significant code of the activity: public class MainActivity extends

The doco for startService states "If this service is not already running, it will be instantiated and started (creating a process for it if needed); if it is running then it remains running." I'm finding that each call to startService appears to be starting a separate instance of the service, in that the work that the service is doing (in my test case, trivially writing to a new log file) is being done again for each call. I'm trying to detect the service by looping through ActivityManager... getRunningServices(Integer.MAX_VALUE)) but it's not showing up. Android 2.3.3 on SGS 11 I'm missing

I created a service which syncs data from the web on a background thread and want to notify a list activity when the service has completed so it can update it's cursor? What would be the best way to do this? I'm thinking of sending a broadcast when the service is done but not sure if that's the best way to do it. I need to requery the cursor when the service has finished so I'm not sure if that will work well with broadcast receivers? I haven't done alot of android in awhile so thanks in advance. Use a Handler in your service that registers a client when your ListActivity connects to the

I'm new to Android programming, so I'm facing some general problems about choosing the best way to design my app. What I want to do is basically a media player. I want the media player to run on a service because I want it to play also when the activity is not displayed. My question is, how can I update the UI on my activity depending on the service working flow (for example, the song changes and I want its name to be displayed)? I guess I could use a Local Broadcast Manager in order to send intents from my service to my activity and invoke UI updates (does it seem right?) BUT... I will want