Developing two android apps and communicating between two
I am developing two applications names A and B.
Application A as activity named MainActivity
, service called UpdateService
, BroadcastReciever
called UpdateReceiver
.
Application B as activity named TestActivity
, service called DoService
, BroadcastReciever
called DoReceiver
.
In my application B, I want to access few methods and code from MainActivity
which is in Application A.
In this way, I need full control of Application A code to access it in my application B.
How can I achieve it?
Solution 1:
You cannot directly access methods of Activity
in different app.
Broadcast
would work but if you want more control (i.e. invoke remote methods) consider binding to a remote service in the other app or use Messenger
and handler to communicate.
Here is a short tutorial on inter-app communication
Solution 2:
You can't share methods and code segments between different applications, but you can use intents to send data bundles back and forth, check this similar question:
android communication between two applications