Developing two android apps and communicating between two

android, communication

Solution

You cannot directly access methods of `Activity` in different app.

`Broadcast` would work but if you want more control (i.e. invoke remote methods) consider binding to a remote service in the other app or use `Messenger` and handler to communicate.

Here is a short tutorial on inter-app communication

Problem

I am developing two applications names A and B. Application A as activity named `MainActivity`, service called `UpdateService`, `BroadcastReciever` called `UpdateReceiver`. Application B as activity named `TestActivity`, service called `DoService`, `BroadcastReciever` called `DoReceiver`. In my application B, I want to access few methods and code from `MainActivity` which is in Application A. In this way, I need full control of Application A code to access it in my application B. How can I achieve it?

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