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Is there a built in mechanism for server push on Android?

What I want to achieve is to start an application based on a server request (without involving SMS, only data connection).

Is this possible without having a service always running?

Thanks Flaviu

Jeremy
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There are a couple of 3rd party SDK's which do this, Xtify is the one that always comes up.

They have a SDK which you bundle with you app that you can use via a web service to send 'intents' to your app. The SDK handles the background process and such.

It's free to use up to certain amount of notifications which I can't currently recall.

As for SMS which you mention in your follow up question, WAP PUSH/SMS/MMS all are going to cost you $$$ and have limited applications. PUSH does allow you to specify application handlers via the WAPHeader in my experience it's flaky due to different implementations.

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There is nothing built into the framework for this at this time, sorry.

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