Android start ActivityRecognition Manually

Question

my Android App needs to detect the current Activity (running, walking, ...).

I followed the instructions on the Android Dev Page: http://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/ActivityRecognitionClient.html

// Connect to the ActivityRecognitionService
ActivityRecognitionClient mActivityRecognitionClient =
       new ActivityRecognitionClient(this, this, this);
mActivityRecognitionClient.connect();

// Called when a connection to the ActivityRecognitionService has been established.
public void onConnected(Bundle connectionHint) {
   Intent intent = new Intent(this, MyIntentService.class);
   PendingIntent callbackIntent = PendingIntent.getService(this, 0, intent,
           PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
   mActivityRecognitionClient.requestActivityUpdates(30000, callbackIntent);
}

And in my Intent-Service:

protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
   if (ActivityRecognitionResult.hasResult(intent)) {
       ActivityRecognitionResult result = ActivityRecognitionResult.extractResult(intent);
       // Put your application specific logic here (i.e. result.getMostProbableActivity())
   }
}

Here's my problem: I want to start the activity recognition on my own. The Code from the Android Dev Page seems, like it's supposed to do that. BUT if I don't add the service to the AndroidManifest, it won't do anything. The onConnected() method gets called, but not onHandleIntent().

So I thought I might just need to add it to the Manifest. Now I do receive Activities, but I receive them all the time. This is also not what I want. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance, Steff

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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Alternatively, you can do it "manually", without google-play-services. See my answer here. The main idea is to detect current top Activity, which is Activity of external application. You can create Service, which will monitor top activities.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Apr 17 '14 at 09:10

Veaceslav Gaidarji

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Thanks, but I still hope to find a solution with which I can use the logic given by Android. Why would I call `mActivityRecognitionClient.connect();`if there was no chance to start the recognition programatically. If I add the service to the manifest, I don't even call that function and it still works. – Stefan Apr 18 '14 at 06:51

Android start ActivityRecognition Manually

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