Check if service is available

Question

I need to know if a specific service is available (running or can be created) before calling Context.bindService.

Is there a way to check that ?

Answer 1

please see the comments

 ServiceConnection serviceConnection = new ServiceConnection() {
        @Override
        public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder service)    {
    // capture the service object , check for alive or not
         service.isBinderAlive(); 

        }

        @Override
        public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName name) {

        }
    };