Android: Have a non-intrusive activity transparent/unclickable activity running
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Explaining this will be kind of a stretch but please bear with me. I've also put a visualization of what I want to do at the bottom of the post.
I have an app with 2 Services (A, C) and one Activity (B). The activity is absolutely needed to launch the second service because it creates a GUI that cannot be created from within the service itself as it needs an activity reference.
Service A is listening and once triggered, will launch Activity B which launches Service C.
Because I am currently out of ideas on how to let Service A communicate with Service C (C is already bound to B) I thought I would just launch the Activity every time Service A gets triggered and then hide the activity immediately.
Bad design aside this generally works but there is one major flaw: as I am constantly launching the activity (launchMode="singleInstance" so it doesn't stack up) it keeps appearing on screen preventing the user from interacting with their phone during that time. I do run moveTaskToBack(true); immediately to get that Activity to disappear as soon as possible but it's still visible for a few seconds.
Now I'd like to know how to
A) let Service A check whether Activity B and Service C are running (the user wouldn't mind the activity flashing up once per hour, I just don't want to bring it to front every 15 seconds)
or
B) Make Activity B "ontouchable" so the touches get passed through and the user doesn't notice it's on screen for a second (I've already made it transparent so the home screen is visible but it's still preventing the user from clicking anything on the homescreen)
android asked Nov 12 at 0:33
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Explaining this will be kind of a stretch but please bear with me. I've also put a visualization of what I want to do at the bottom of the post.
I have an app with 2 Services (A, C) and one Activity (B). The activity is absolutely needed to launch the second service because it creates a GUI that cannot be created from within the service itself as it needs an activity reference.
Service A is listening and once triggered, will launch Activity B which launches Service C.
Because I am currently out of ideas on how to let Service A communicate with Service C (C is already bound to B) I thought I would just launch the Activity every time Service A gets triggered and then hide the activity immediately.
Bad design aside this generally works but there is one major flaw: as I am constantly launching the activity (launchMode="singleInstance" so it doesn't stack up) it keeps appearing on screen preventing the user from interacting with their phone during that time. I do run moveTaskToBack(true); immediately to get that Activity to disappear as soon as possible but it's still visible for a few seconds.
Now I'd like to know how to
A) let Service A check whether Activity B and Service C are running (the user wouldn't mind the activity flashing up once per hour, I just don't want to bring it to front every 15 seconds)
or
B) Make Activity B "ontouchable" so the touches get passed through and the user doesn't notice it's on screen for a second (I've already made it transparent so the home screen is visible but it's still preventing the user from clicking anything on the homescreen)
android asked Nov 12 at 0:33
user2161301
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I have thought about sending a broadcast, setting areceivedbool to false and if there is a reply from B and C, setting it to true. A second later it will check whetherreceivedis true. This is pure nightmare code but for now that's the closest I got to getting this to work
– user2161301
Nov 12 at 11:24
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Explaining this will be kind of a stretch but please bear with me. I've also put a visualization of what I want to do at the bottom of the post.
I have an app with 2 Services (A, C) and one Activity (B). The activity is absolutely needed to launch the second service because it creates a GUI that cannot be created from within the service itself as it needs an activity reference.
Service A is listening and once triggered, will launch Activity B which launches Service C.
Because I am currently out of ideas on how to let Service A communicate with Service C (C is already bound to B) I thought I would just launch the Activity every time Service A gets triggered and then hide the activity immediately.
Bad design aside this generally works but there is one major flaw: as I am constantly launching the activity (launchMode="singleInstance" so it doesn't stack up) it keeps appearing on screen preventing the user from interacting with their phone during that time. I do run moveTaskToBack(true); immediately to get that Activity to disappear as soon as possible but it's still visible for a few seconds.
Now I'd like to know how to
A) let Service A check whether Activity B and Service C are running (the user wouldn't mind the activity flashing up once per hour, I just don't want to bring it to front every 15 seconds)
or
B) Make Activity B "ontouchable" so the touches get passed through and the user doesn't notice it's on screen for a second (I've already made it transparent so the home screen is visible but it's still preventing the user from clicking anything on the homescreen)
android asked Nov 12 at 0:33
user2161301
152211
Explaining this will be kind of a stretch but please bear with me. I've also put a visualization of what I want to do at the bottom of the post.
I have an app with 2 Services (A, C) and one Activity (B). The activity is absolutely needed to launch the second service because it creates a GUI that cannot be created from within the service itself as it needs an activity reference.
Service A is listening and once triggered, will launch Activity B which launches Service C.
Because I am currently out of ideas on how to let Service A communicate with Service C (C is already bound to B) I thought I would just launch the Activity every time Service A gets triggered and then hide the activity immediately.
Bad design aside this generally works but there is one major flaw: as I am constantly launching the activity (launchMode="singleInstance" so it doesn't stack up) it keeps appearing on screen preventing the user from interacting with their phone during that time. I do run moveTaskToBack(true); immediately to get that Activity to disappear as soon as possible but it's still visible for a few seconds.
Now I'd like to know how to
A) let Service A check whether Activity B and Service C are running (the user wouldn't mind the activity flashing up once per hour, I just don't want to bring it to front every 15 seconds)
or
B) Make Activity B "ontouchable" so the touches get passed through and the user doesn't notice it's on screen for a second (I've already made it transparent so the home screen is visible but it's still preventing the user from clicking anything on the homescreen)
android android asked Nov 12 at 0:33
user2161301
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asked Nov 12 at 0:33
user2161301
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asked Nov 12 at 0:33
user2161301
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asked Nov 12 at 0:33
user2161301
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asked Nov 12 at 0:33
user2161301
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I have thought about sending a broadcast, setting areceivedbool to false and if there is a reply from B and C, setting it to true. A second later it will check whetherreceivedis true. This is pure nightmare code but for now that's the closest I got to getting this to work
– user2161301
Nov 12 at 11:24
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I have thought about sending a broadcast, setting areceivedbool to false and if there is a reply from B and C, setting it to true. A second later it will check whetherreceivedis true. This is pure nightmare code but for now that's the closest I got to getting this to work
– user2161301
Nov 12 at 11:24
I have thought about sending a broadcast, setting a
received bool to false and if there is a reply from B and C, setting it to true. A second later it will check whether received is true. This is pure nightmare code but for now that's the closest I got to getting this to work– user2161301
Nov 12 at 11:24
I have thought about sending a broadcast, setting a
received bool to false and if there is a reply from B and C, setting it to true. A second later it will check whether received is true. This is pure nightmare code but for now that's the closest I got to getting this to work– user2161301
Nov 12 at 11:24
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I have thought about sending a broadcast, setting a
receivedbool to false and if there is a reply from B and C, setting it to true. A second later it will check whetherreceivedis true. This is pure nightmare code but for now that's the closest I got to getting this to work– user2161301
Nov 12 at 11:24