Re: [android-internals] asynchronous messaging as alternative to synchronous AiDL/IBinder - Zach Hobbs - com.googlegroups.android-internals

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Wink Saville	20 Dec 2007 18:29
Zach Hobbs	21 Dec 2007 10:46
Wink Saville	22 Dec 2007 16:18

Subject:	Re: [android-internals] asynchronous messaging as alternative to synchronous AiDL/IBinder
From:	Zach Hobbs (ho....@helloandroid.com)
Date:	12/21/2007 10:46:36 AM
List:	com.googlegroups.android-internals

I think this would be useful as well...you can actually do it, but you can't use AIDL to achieve it: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/378ce5eea6ffaee7

On Friday 21 December 2007 02:29:23 am Wink Saville wrote:

I've been studying Android messaging and the recommendations for communicating. Intents & IntentReciever allows components (Activities) to communicate asynchronously using a publish/subscribe style of communication.

But for 1 to 1 type communication Android provides an IPC which uses AIDL and IBinder. This is an RPC style communication and appears to be related to Java RMI. I find this tightly coupled/synchronous interfaces inappropriate for some types of applications.

Personally, I would like to have the option of using asynchronous messaging as an IPC. Basically, I'd like to accomplish the same goals as AIDL/IBinder but using an asynchronous messaging.

Is anyone else interested in this?

Regards,