Use service StartingIntent to pass values

[warwound]

Hi.

Is it possible to pass values to a service using an Intent?

I see the Service_Start Sub receives an Intent StartingIntent and wondered if i could add values as extras to that Intent from my calling code.

The general recommended advice seems to be to use globals to pass values to a service but i thought i'd ask anyway.

Activity code:

' i have some values to pass to MyService
StartService(MyService)

Service code:

Sub Service_Start (StartingIntent As Intent)
 ' I want StartingIntent to contain those values   
End Sub

Any ideas?

Martin.

 

[Erel]

Yes it is possible.
You should create an Intent and add the values:

   Dim i As Intent
   i.Initialize("", "")
   i.SetComponent(package & "/.pushservice")
   i.PutExtra("MyRequest", "Register")
   StartService(i)

package - A variable that holds the package name.

In this case we start a service named PushService. Internally the name is lowercased, so you should use the lower case name.

 

[warwound]

Great that works perfectly.

Thanks.

Martin.

 

[derez]

Hi
I'm using recieved SMS to start an application.

Sub Service_Start(startingIntent As Intent)
  If startingIntent.Action = "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED" Then
        StartActivity(Main)
  End If
End Sub

Is it possible to pass a parameter in the sent sms and get it here ?
Of course I could check in main the content of the sms and use it but I wondered if it could be done by the statrtingintent.getextra

 

[Erel]

This is an old thread. Better start a new one instead...