hello, Venkat!

how can I help you today?

Good day Mark

I am using a websocket created by AndroidAsync

and need to reconnect in case of network disconnections

can I create a dynamic broadcast receiver from a service?

if you mean, can you call registerReceiver() on a Service, the answer is: yes

I tried but I do not get any brodcasts if the application is not active

what does "if the application is not active" mean?

I mean if the main activity is not in the foreground

I am creating a local service which handles the websocket connection

sorry if I am not clear ... new to Android / Java

well, I'll admit to never having tried registerReceiver() on a Service, but since the method is defined up on Context, it'll certainly compile

which broadcast are you trying to listen to? CONNECTIVITY_ACTION?

yes, please

AFAIK, that should be something you can listen to from a receiver registered via registerReceiver(), whether on a Service or an Activity

another approach would be to have the receiver registered in the manifest, but then enable and disable it as needed from your service

My broadcast receiver has a listener variable which points to the service, if I register it through the manifest then this variable is always null

your manifest-registered receiver would call startService() to send a command to the service, starting it if it is not already running

so I was unsure how I can call the reconnect function from the receiver if registered from the manifest

ok ... will give it a try

if you have another question, go right ahead

Just a small query - in one of your answers in SO, you refer to the Weather API sample from the advanced guide, do you plan to cover it in the omnibus version of teh book?

no, I replaced that with the Stack Overflow client

ok .. will check that out

No more questions for now ... will test out calling startService() from the receiver

OK

hello, moffitj!

moffitj, do you have a question?

I do

I'm trying to set up two-way communication between my xmpp GCM server and my phone. Upstream messages work beautifully. However, downstream messages appear to be empty. I can see from the Smackxmpp debug window that the packet was sent and contains a data field with key:value pairs, but when it arrives in my service and I call intent.getExtras().getString("valuethatIsetonserver"), the result is null.

What could cause the intent passed to my service to not include the data that I sent frommy server?

have you dumped the entire extras bundle, to see if something is altering your keys?

I did

The keys I was trying to send were command and userID

that would suggest that the key/value pairs are being eaten either at Google's servers or in the Play Services Framework's processing of what gets pushed down from those servers

I haven't played with CCS/XMPP on GCM

so I haven't looked to see what the XMPP stanzas should look like, etc.

I think I know the cause then. For some reason the smack debug window is showing all quotes as "

perhaps they're being entity-escaped when you're building the XMPP message

I thought this was a display bug, since google happily acked it rather than nacked as a malformed stanza

maybe Google's servers are just being friendly :-)

Thanks for the direction

Mark, have got it working, thanks for your help

oh, good, glad to hear it