Basic Android System Service

https://github.com/gibsson/BasicService

This project intends to be an easy-to-use skeleton for any kind of Android System Service.

Its implementation is very simple and exposes only two functions get/set of an integer.

Its architecture has been inspired from the more featured Marakana Log Service example: https://github.com/twitter-university/alpha

It consists of two main parts: one java library and one java application. Below is a quick description of the project files.

1. com.gibsson.basic.service.lib (src/com/gibsson/basic/service/lib)

• IBasicService.aidl: Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL) which describes the API
• BasicManager.java: Manager that handles the connections from the application to the Service
• com.gibsson.basic.service.lib.xml: Permission that allows application to use the generated library

2. BasicServiceApp (src/com/gibsson/basic/service/app)

• IBasicServiceImpl.java: Actual implementation of the IBasicService API
• BasicServiceApp.java: Application that registers the latter implementation as a System Service

In order to have the service built-in your Android device or emulator, the packages must be explicitly requested as follows:

PRODUCT_PACKAGES +=
com.gibsson.basic.service.lib
com.gibsson.basic.service.lib.xml
BasicServiceApp

A sample client application is provided in another git repository: https://github.com/gibsson/BasicClient

To enable application developers to access the library API, an SDK add-on can be generated: https://github.com/gibsson/basic_sdk_addon