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Android Interface Definition Language
Fichas del conjunto (8)
- 1AIDL Data types-primitive JAVA data types
-String
-CharSequence
-List
-Map - 2Steps to define AIDL1. Create .aidl file
2. Implement the interface
3. Expose interface to client - 3What is the .aidl file?The AIDL allows us to declare an interface with one or more methods, resides in the src/ directory
- 4.aidl file info?-each .aidl file can only define 1 interface
-Only methods are supported
-Cannot expose static fields in .aidl
-Non primitive data types require "in" "out" "inout" directional tags
-Generates IBinder interface
-SDK generates a .java interface file and stub class for the .aidl file - 5How do we implement the .aidl interface?-Extend generated IBinder Interface with an instance of the generated Stub class
-Implement methods from .aidl file - 6Rules for implementing Interface?-Incoming calls not guaranteed on Main Thread-
-RPC calls are synchronous-
-No thrown exceptions are sent back to caller-
-Client must have access to Interface Class/.aidl file - 7How do we expose the Interface to clients?-Extend SERVICE class and implement onBind() which returns an instance of the class that implements the generated stub
-Client calls bindService() to connect
-Clients onServiceConnected() callback receives Binder instance - 8What is RPC? What does it do?Remote Procedure Calls.
Allows us to make method calls locally and execute them remotely in another process.