Question

In the for-loop below the last putExtra overrides the first putExtra even though they take different parameters and different vars.

First: putExtra(String,String)
Second: putExtra(String, int)

Note: videos[i] is a String array

 Intent intent = new Intent(this,DownloadService.class);
        for(int i=0;i<videos.length;i++){
             intent.putExtra("VIDEOS",videos[i]);
         intent.putExtra("FILENR",(i + 1));          
             startService(intent);

        }

In my DownloadService which extends IntentService the value from VIDEOS is null !!
Why is that ?

EDIT:
This is the part of the code in my DownloadService class:

Intent broadcastIntent = new Intent();
    notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, null, 0);

notification = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, "Skitips", System.currentTimeMillis());
contentView = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.progress_layout);
notification.flags = Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
notification.contentView = contentView;
notification.contentIntent = contentIntent;
contentView.setProgressBar(R.id.status_progress, 100, 0, false);        
contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.status_text,"Downloading...");

String full_url = "";

    full_url = URL + intent.getStringExtra("VIDEOS");

String fileName = "";

    fileName = intent.getStringExtra("VIDEOS");

String fileNr = "";

    fileNr = intent.getStringExtra("FILENR");


    int count;






   Log.e("Whattttttt","is the value of VIDEOOOOSSSS: " + full_url);
    Log.e("Whatttt","is the value of fileNrrrrrrrrrrrr:" + fileNr);
    try {
    URL url = new URL(full_url);
    URLConnection conexion = url.openConnection();
    conexion.connect();
    File file = new File(root.getPath(), fileName);

    int lenghtOfFile = conexion.getContentLength();
    Log.d("ANDRO_ASYNC", "Lenght of file: " + lenghtOfFile);

    InputStream input = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());
    OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(file);

    byte data[] = new byte[1024];

    long total = 0;

contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.status_text,”Downloading (” + fileNr + “/77)”);

in the bold text there fileNr i need to get the fileNr from the other activity but it’s giving me null in this case…

Answer 1

In your Question the

key are always remain same for different values that’s why,,

try to use

         intent.putExtra(DownloadService.VIDEOS+i,videos[i]);
         intent.putExtra(DownloadService.fileNr+i, i++);     

and get result like,

        DownloadService.VIDEOS0,DownloadService.fileNr0,
        DownloadService.VIDEOS1,DownloadService.fileNr1,

EDIT: try this code..

 Intent intent = new Intent(this,DownloadService.class);
        putStringArrayListExtra("Videos_key", videos);
        startService(intent);

And one more thing if you are passing array of integer and some Array of video URI then please try to use

    putStringArrayListExtra(String name, ArrayList<String> value)
    putIntegerArrayListExtra(String name, ArrayList<Integer> value)

and avoid loop..

Thanks.