android communication between two applications

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Hello, i need some help in how to start developing two android applications (on one phone) which communicate with each other.

On the whole, you generally don’t want to artificially split one application into two, particularly if you are the author of both.

That being said, you can:

  • have Application B expose a an IntentService that will be called via startService() from Application A, with results passed back via a PendingIntent from createPendingResult() or a Messenger or a broadcast Intent or a ResultReceiver; or
  • have Application B expose a Service with an API defined in AIDL, and have Application A bind to that service, then have Application A call methods on Application B, or
  • send a broadcast Intent from Application A to Application B, with results being passed back by the same roster of options in the first bullet above, or
  • have Application B implement a content provider, and have Application A use ContentResolver to manipulate that content provider
  • and so on

Be sure work through all of the security ramifications of what you are doing, since you are exposing an API not only for Application A to use, but for any application on the device to use, unless you secure it with permissions.

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