Interfacing Corona apps with other running service / application

Solar2D Android
#1

Hi,

We’re working on an Adnroid based educational setup for schools. Each desk would have an android tablet on it. We focus on adding game mechanics to the lessons. And as it goes, Corona has been making our lives much easier in pacing the speed of development.

However as we’re proceeding further with our project, it turns out that we really need to access some core features of the device. Specially to control the sleep mode, and to control some of the accessories (lights and buttons for kids) we’re attaching with the android tablets.

One of the ideas is to run two apps -

the corona frontend and our own service to interface better with the hardware.

Is it possible to make corona apps communicate with the running background services or another app on android?

If so, do point us to some relevant docs/discussions. If not, are there some other crazier ideas to make a corona app communicate with another app running in parallel.

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#2

In android you can have apps in the background, but what would your other app be doing that you might want to link to? coz instead of an app, you can try to link it to a webserver to store data which can then be gotten back by the app and it will work on all platforms, even on androids that might struggle with multi-tasking.

cheers,

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