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Notice: This service is available in Bazaar v6.5+

In the following steps, you will learn how to get user's login status from Bazaar.

Create a package named com.farsitel.bazaar and copy ILoginCheckService.aidl in it. After doing this your project structure should look like this:

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Imagine you want to ask the user's login status inside an activity named LoginCheckActivity from Bazaar. In order to establish the connection between your app and Bazaar's service, you need to create a new inner class (LoginCheckServiceConnection in this example) by implementing Android ServiceConnection class inside your activity class (LoginCheckActivity in this example).

LoginCheckServiceConnectioninner class should implemet onServiceConnected() and onServiceDiconnected() methods. These methods are the callbacks, which will get the stub implementation of Bazaar service on connection. Then you just need to type cast them from Stubs to AIDL service implementation. To do so, you need to use:

ILoginCheckService.Stub.asInterface((IBinder) boundService);

helper method. From here you will have a local service pointer to accessing data and methods.

Complete code of LoginCheckActivity is as follows:

public class LoginCheckActivity extends Activity {

    ILoginCheckService service;

    LoginCheckServiceConnection connection;

    private static final String TAG = "LoginCheck";

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        initService();
    }

    private void initService() {
        Log.i(TAG, "initService()");
        connection = new LoginCheckServiceConnection();
        Intent i = new Intent(
                "com.farsitel.bazaar.service.LoginCheckService.BIND");
        i.setPackage("com.farsitel.bazaar");
        boolean ret = bindService(i, connection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
        Log.e(TAG, "initService() bound value: " + ret);
    }

    /** This is our function to un-binds this activity from our service. */
    private void releaseService() {
        unbindService(connection);
        connection = null;
        Log.d(TAG, "releaseService(): unbound.");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        releaseService();
    }

    public class LoginCheckServiceConnection implements ServiceConnection {

        private static final String TAG = "LoginCheck";

        public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder boundService) {
            service = ILoginCheckService.Stub
                    .asInterface((IBinder) boundService);
            try {
                boolean isLoggedIn = service.isLoggedIn();
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "isLoggedIn:" + isLoggedIn,
                        Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            Log.e(TAG, "onServiceConnected(): Connected");
        }

        public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName name) {
            service = null;
            Log.e(TAG, "onServiceDisconnected(): Disconnected");
        }
    }
}

The following inner class processes your request to bazaar and shows the response via a toast

public class LoginCheckServiceConnection implements ServiceConnection {
    private static final String TAG = "LoginCheck";
    public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder boundService) {
        service = ILoginCheckService.Stub
                    .asInterface((IBinder) boundService);
        try {
            boolean isLoggedIn = service.isLoggedIn();
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "isLoggedIn:" + isLoggedIn,
                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        Log.e(TAG, "onServiceConnected(): Connected");
    }

    public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName name) {
        service = null;
        Log.e(TAG, "onServiceDisconnected(): Disconnected");
    }
}

You should initialize this service via calling initService() when you want to check login status (in this example, we called initService() in onCreate function of mainActivity class)

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
	super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
	initService();
	...
}

initService function, creates a new LoginCheckServiceConnection and a new Intent and binds them together to connect to bazaar

private void initService() {
    Log.i(TAG, "initService()");
    connection = new LoginCheckServiceConnection();
    Intent i = new Intent("com.farsitel.bazaar.service.LoginCheckService.BIND");
    i.setPackage("com.farsitel.bazaar");
    boolean ret = bindService(i, connection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
    Log.e(TAG, "initService() bound value: " + ret);
}

releaseService function frees the resources that this service has used in order to free device's memory and resources

private void releaseService() {
	unbindService(connection);
	connection = null;
	Log.d(TAG, "releaseService(): unbound.");
}

You should call releaseService() when you are done with this service (in this example, we called it in onDestroy of mainActivity class)

protected void onDestroy() {
	super.onDestroy();
	releaseService();
	...
}

If the user is logged in, below line in the code above:

boolean isLoggedIn = service.isLoggedIn();

will return true, otherwise it will return false.

initService() in LoginCheckActivity is the method which is called from onCreate() method to established the connection with Bazaar.

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Publish Date: 1400-03-28 21:21

Latest Update: 1400-04-10 19:55