Where to stop/destroy threads in Android Service class?

Addendum: The Android framework provides many helpers for one-off work, background work, etc, which may be preferable over trying to roll your own thread in many instances. As mentioned in a below post, AsyncTask is a good starting point to look into. I encourage readers to look into the framework provisions first before even beginning … Read more

What is DAO and Service layer exactly in Spring framework?

There is no distinction as far as Spring is concerned. By convention you can mark DAO classes with @Repository and services with @Service. Also the former does some persistence layer exception translation. Since you are asking theoretically: DAO should perform raw database operations and translate them to some higher level constructs (objects, collections). Services should … Read more

How to Programmatically Enable/Disable Accessibility Service in Android

I found a solution worked for me by calling Settings.Secure.putString(getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.ENABLED_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICES, “pkgname/classname”); Settings.Secure.putString(getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED, “1”); Where the pkgname is your package name and the classname is the class name of your accessibility service. If you need to enable several services or you don’t want to destory the previous settings you might want to use : … Read more

Could not start Windows Service, Error 1064

Thanks to @Siderite Zackwehdex’s comment, I was able to find the full stack trace of the underlying exception in EventViewer, under: Windows Logs\Application In my case, my service is named “HttpDispatcher”, which appears in the “Source” column in the top pane. I could see immediately it was due to a dependency issue where my .NET … Read more

Difference between ServiceProcessInstaller and ServiceInstaller

It is possible for an executable to actually contain multiple services. In such a case, you’d have a ServiceInstaller that represents each service, but a single ServiceProcessInstaller, that represents the executable. Each service is implemented (in .NET) as a different class. But the multiple services (if they’re all started) would share an AppDomain (I believe). … Read more

How to convert a Swift object to a dictionary

I must disagree with @Darko. In Swift 2, use protocol oriented programming and the simple reflection offered by Mirror class : protocol JSONAble {} extension JSONAble { func toDict() -> [String:Any] { var dict = [String:Any]() let otherSelf = Mirror(reflecting: self) for child in otherSelf.children { if let key = child.label { dict[key] = child.value … Read more

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