Disabling the self-referential appearance of a mobile application in an intent via a background registration

摘要

Systems and methods for disabling the self-referential appearance of a mobile application in an Intent via a background thread are disclosed. On the Android platform, an application such as a mobile application for providing access to a cloud environment or cloud based service including cloud-based storage and/or collaborative services, can serve as both a source and a target for a given Intent. In one implementation, such a mobile application that can receive and send the same Intent, can include a background service that detects when the Intent is about to be issued, and unregisters the application to prevent the application from receiving the Intent. When a target application for handling the Intent is identified, the background service re-registers the application to receive the Intent.

主权项

1. A method for disabling the appearance of an application as a source and a target in an inter-application communication in a mobile device, comprising:
detecting, by an application, a user request to perform an operation that is supported by the application; temporarily unregistering the application to avoid being identified as a target application supporting the operation; and sending a message requesting delivery to any application on the mobile device that supports the operation.