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Carrier custom application

I need to create an Android application to set carrier configuration(VoLte e.g.). The application should fetch configs from our Back-End and apply them on the phone.
In Android documentation I found the following article: This article says, that I can create my own application and override CarrierService.
public class SampleCarrierConfigService extends CarrierService {
private static final String TAG = "SampleCarrierConfigService";
public SampleCarrierConfigService() {
Log.d(TAG, "Service created");
}
#Override
public PersistableBundle onLoadConfig(CarrierIdentifier id) {
Log.d(TAG, "Config being fetched");
PersistableBundle config = new PersistableBundle();
config.putBoolean(
CarrierConfigManager.KEY_CARRIER_VOLTE_AVAILABLE_BOOL, true);
config.putBoolean(
CarrierConfigManager.KEY_CARRIER_VOLTE_TTY_SUPPORTED_BOOL, false);
config.putInt(CarrierConfigManager.KEY_VOLTE_REPLACEMENT_RAT_INT, 6);
// Check CarrierIdentifier and add more config if needed…
return config;
}
}
I created an app with this service, but the method onLoadConfig(CarrierIdentifier id) is never called by the system.
So what I want from the system to call my overridden method, not system's. What should I do?

I found your question when researching how to do something similar.
In the article you linked it says:
The carrier app in question must be signed with the same certificate found on the SIM card, as documented in UICC Carrier Privileges.
Since we can't get the certificate from your carrier (they will never give it to you) I think we can't implement our own flavour sadly :-(

How to log crash details from CustomActivityOnCrash

We are using the Ereza CustomActivityOnCrash library to handle unexpected issues with our android app. It's activity offers some debug output which we enable in develop and test builds but disable on production builds. In addition we want to log that information about crash details (log entries, stack trace, error details) in background.
CustomActivityOnCrash offers to call event listeners which sounds convenient. I wanted to implement the interface in our logging service, however I do not understand how I can access the existing information in the crash activity that way. Which puzzles me, cause isn't that a natural expectation?
Basically I need to access public methods of an android activity object from an event listener method that does not get handed over anything. How can I access that activity in the handler method? And how can I get the intent of the activity leading to the crash which is the argument the crash activity expects in those public methods it offers to access the existing information it offers? The examples given in the libraries documentation and those I could find on the internet are trivial, they only dump example strings, not the actual data collected by the library.
This all sounds counter intuitive to me. Which is why I think I generally miss something here. Maybe someone has a short hint for me to bring me on track again. Thanks!
Here is the basics of the LogService implementation I imagine:
...
import cat.ereza.customactivityoncrash.CustomActivityOnCrash;
...
public class LogService
implements CustomActivityOnCrash.EventListener {
private static LogService instance;
...
public void log(LogLevel level, String message) {
....
}
public void logCrashDetails(String activityLog, String stackTrace, String errorDetails) {
String message = String.format(
"--- CRASH REPORT ---\n\n-- Activity log:\n%s\n\n- Stack trace:\n%s\n\nError details:\n%s",
activityLog,
stackTrace,
errorDetails);
log(LogLevel.ERROR, message);
}
....
// CustomActivityOnCrash EventListener interface
#Override
public void onLaunchErrorActivity() {
log(LogLevel.INFO, "COAC: app crashed");
logCrashDetails(
// CustomActivityOnCrash.getActivityLogFromIntent(...some intent...),
// CustomActivityOnCrash.getStackTraceFromIntent(...some intent...),
// CustomActivityOnCrash.getAllErrorDetailsFromIntent(...some intent...)
);
}
#Override
public void onRestartAppFromErrorActivity() {
log(LogLevel.INFO, "COAC: app restarted");
}
#Override
public void onCloseAppFromErrorActivity() {
log(LogLevel.INFO, "COAC: app closed");
}
}

How to disable image loading in CEF/JCEF?

Is there a switch/flag that allows to do this? I spent hours finding those but couldn't find anything that works. The other thing I'm planning to do is intercept the cefRequest by adding my own CefRequestHandler, examine the resource type and if it matches RT_IMAGE, cancel the request. Everything seems easy except the part when I have to cancel a request. How do I stop/block/cancel a cefRequest? I probably should not be doing it this way but it doesn't work anyway:
public class CefClientRequestHandler extends CefRequestHandlerAdapter {
#Override
public boolean onBeforeResourceLoad(CefBrowser cefBrowser, CefFrame cefFrame, CefRequest cefRequest) {
if (cefRequest.getResourceType().equals(CefRequest.ResourceType.RT_IMAGE)) {
cefRequest.setURL("");
}
return false;
}
// more overides
}
Any ideas?

So here's a hack that works. The trick is to change the Request Method to HEAD, and because HEAD requests aren't returned the body, images won't be part of the response.
public class CefClientRequestHandler extends CefRequestHandlerAdapter {
#Override
public boolean onBeforeResourceLoad(CefBrowser cefBrowser, CefFrame cefFrame, CefRequest cefRequest) {
if (cefRequest.getResourceType().equals(RT_IMAGE)) {
cefRequest.setMethod("HEAD");
}
return false;
}
// other overridden methods here...
}
I believe that this approach should be avoided mainly because of the following two reasons:
Changing the method from GET to HEAD does not prevent CEF from making the request to the server. The overhead of opening a connection and handling a request is still there which makes it slower than simply blocking the request.
I'm not sure if images won't be displayed if they are available from browser cache. Currently, I don't know of any methods to test this. Suggestions are welcome.
Edit 1:
Changing URL didn't work in the example I posted in the question because I was passing an empty String as the new URL. If we set the URL to some address that is not an "active" domain name (e.g. https://absolutegarbage-sdjdjfbskdfb.com), the request for that resource fails immediately:
#Override
public boolean onBeforeResourceLoad(CefBrowser cefBrowser, CefFrame cefFrame, CefRequest cefRequest) {
if (cefRequest.getResourceType().equals(CefRequest.ResourceType.RT_IMAGE)) {
cefRequest.setURL("https://yghjbnbk.com");
System.out.println("LOL!");
}
return false;
}
As you can probably guess, this still is not the best solution. Please post an answer or comment if someone has found a better solution.
Edit 2: Finally I have a clean working solution, thanks to user amaitland. We just have to pass a command line switch while setting the CefAppHandler. We can do that by overriding the method onBeforeCommandLineProcessing like this:
CefApp.addAppHandler(new CefAppHandlerAdapter(null) {
#Override
public void onBeforeCommandLineProcessing(String s, CefCommandLine cefCommandLine) {
cefCommandLine.appendSwitch("disable-image-loading");
}
#Override
public void stateHasChanged(CefApp.CefAppState state) {
if (state == CefApp.CefAppState.TERMINATED) System.exit(0);
}
});

Google Api Client interface methods explanation?

#Override
public void getLeaderboardGPGS() {
if (gameHelper.isSignedIn()) {
startActivityForResult(Games.Leaderboards.getLeaderboardIntent(gameHelper.getApiClient(), getString(R.string.event_score)), 100);
}
else if (!gameHelper.isConnecting()) {
loginGPGS();
}
}
#Override
public void getAchievementsGPGS() {
if (gameHelper.isSignedIn()) {
startActivityForResult(Games.Achievements.getAchievementsIntent(gameHelper.getApiClient()), 101);
}
else if (!gameHelper.isConnecting()) {
loginGPGS();
}
}
Can anyone explain to me what these methods do? I have them as part of implementing a GoogleApi interface I made in the context of a tutorial. I especially don't understand the 100 / 101 parts, but the whole thing, in general, is quite confusing for me.
PS. I am making a game in LibGDX and this is my first time touching the Google Play API (or I think any API for that matter)

First Method getLeaderboardGPGS show you Leaderboard above your Activity
if you are already Signed in otherwise it start signing process.
Above method definition is from Libgdx wiki but it should be
private final static int REQUEST_CODE_UNUSED = 9002;
startActivityForResult(Games.Leaderboards.getLeaderboardIntent(gameHelper.getApiClient(), getString(R.string.leaderboardId)), REQUEST_CODE_UNUSED);
REQUEST_CODE_UNUSED is an arbitrary integer for the request code
getString(R.string.leaderboardId) is LEADERBOARD_ID
taken from Google wiki
Second Method getAchievementsGPGS is used to show a player's achievements, call getAchievementsIntent() to get an Intent to create the default achievements UI.
startActivityForResult(Games.Achievements.getAchievementsIntent(gameHelper.getApiClient()), REQUEST_ACHIEVEMENTS);
where REQUEST_ACHIEVEMENTS is an arbitrary integer used as the request code.

Google Fit Listen for Data Updates not working

I'm trying to implement a Google Fit Listener when data is updated into Google Fit services.
In this link of Google Fit documentation there is a simple example, however, it is not 100% clear. For that reason, I have two problems:
I don't know how to implement mResultCallback variable (there aren't any examples in this documentation).
When I define a simple ResultCallback (it seems to work but I'm not sure) and I launch the application, it gives me a result error code: java.lang.SecurityException: Signature check failed

The code within the HistortyApi lists one of android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION or android.permission.BODY_SENSORS as being required.
Adding those permissions to my code hasn't resolved the same problem though.
Confirmed bug in Google Fit services. See discussion in https://plus.google.com/110141422948118561903/posts/Lqri4LVR7cD

mResultCallback is a ResultCallback<Status> so you need to implement a class of that type. Documentation is here, but there's only one method you need to implement:
public abstract void onResult (Status result)
The standard way is to do this using an anonymous class either when you declare mResultCallback or when you're using it as a parameter. Below is an example from Google's BasicRecordingAPI example:
Fitness.RecordingApi.subscribe(mClient, DataType.TYPE_ACTIVITY_SAMPLE)
.setResultCallback(new ResultCallback<Status>() {
#Override
public void onResult(Status status) {
if (status.isSuccess()) {
if (status.getStatusCode()
== FitnessStatusCodes.SUCCESS_ALREADY_SUBSCRIBED) {
Log.i(TAG, "Existing subscription for activity detected.");
} else {
Log.i(TAG, "Successfully subscribed!");
}
} else {
Log.i(TAG, "There was a problem subscribing.");
}
}
});
If you want to use a member variable you can simply make an assignment instead:
ResultCallback<Status> mResultCallback = new ResultCallback<Status>() {
#Override
public void onResult(Status status) {
...
}
});
Of course you can define a non-anonymous class, but if you did that for every callback you had you would end up creating a LOT of classes.