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user489152
user489152

Reputation: 907

Background server in Android

I need to program a Background "process" that would periodically buffer certain types of data like A, B, C. These data should be available to different Apps. For example App X receives data A and App Y receives data type B through the background.

What are my best options for designing such a server?

Is "Android Service" the way to go?

Can I have a simple C server running natively as a startup process called by init? If yes, how can I make the data available to the Dalvik Apps?

Could you provide some starting points?

Thanks a lot

Upvotes: 0

Views: 930

Answers (2)

Ovidiu Latcu
Ovidiu Latcu

Reputation: 72341

What you need to do is :

  1. Create a Service that will periodically get data from the socket and store it. I'm not sure how complex your data is, but I think you should yous a SQLiteDatabase to store it.
  2. Implement a Content Provider that will expose the stored data to other applications.

Upvotes: 0

Ted Hopp
Ted Hopp

Reputation: 234857

What you need to implement is a ContentProvider. The place to start is with the guide topic on Content Providers. To quote the guide: "They're the only way to share data across applications".

Upvotes: 1

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