FirebaseMessagingService's onBind method is final. how make it bound service?

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I want to bind my custom firebase service to the MainActivity class. if it was a normal service, it would be easily done by making the service implement the onBind method, but it is not available because this method is set final in the superclass of FirebaseMessagingService class. I want to bind the service in order to use the LiveData variable set inside this class in the MainActivity class.

I have searched for best practices here and read this documentation about bound services but no luck. I tend to use LiveData somehow but I feel it is not working until I somehow manage to bind the service. am I missing something?

You can not bind to the extends of `FirebaseMessagingService`. easy way to use Singleton LiveData or another observer/subscriber pattern like `RxJava` or `Flow` — Công Hải, Jul 03 '20 at 04:54
@CôngHải Don't I need to bind service even if I use a singleton approach? btw, thanks for your comment. — Emad Razavi, Jul 03 '20 at 04:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 03 '20 at 06:34

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As suggested in a comment by @CôngHải, I can use a singleton object with LiveData inside it to communicate between service and activity without the need of binding the service to activity.

answered Jul 03 '20 at 06:34

Emad Razavi

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FirebaseMessagingService's onBind method is final. how make it bound service?

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