How to communicate with a service from Activity launched by this service itself

Asked Jul 09 '14 at 07:40

Active Jul 09 '14 at 08:12

Viewed 130 times

I have a service 'MyService' running in background which launches an activity 'MyActivity' on certain event (code below).

    Intent i = new Intent(this, MyActivity.class);
    i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    startActivity(i);

'MyActivity' perfroms some action and has to communicate back to 'MyService' but I do not know how it can be done since there is no reference to service.

Please note 'MyService' extends 'HostApduService'. I have just checked in docs that HostApduService has declared 'onBind' as final

@Override
public final IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
    return mMessenger.getBinder();
}

So I can not use the service binding mechanism, right?

Any pointer please?

Thanks
iuq

edited Jul 09 '14 at 08:12

asked Jul 09 '14 at 07:40

iuq

1,487
1
20
42

use Binder in service ,you can look at http://developer.android.com/guide/components/bound-services.html – Ravi Kant Jul 09 '14 at 07:46
perhaps its time to learn Service binding... :) – waqaslam Jul 09 '14 at 07:46
Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4300291/example-communication-between-activity-and-service-using-messaging?rq=1 – LordRaydenMK Jul 09 '14 at 07:47
1

I have updated my question. Can I still use service binding? – iuq Jul 09 '14 at 10:06

How to communicate with a service from Activity launched by this service itself

0 Answers0

Linked