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s011208
s011208

Reputation: 405

android service, broadcast and activity

Current I have three classes: activity (A), broadcastReceiver (B) and service (C).

Assuming that A is binding to C and now, B get a new intent from system.

Can B bind to the C (exactly the same one) directly?

I find out that there is a peekService method in broadcastReceiver.

my question is can I bind the running service in broadcastReceiver?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 380

Answers (2)

s011208
s011208

Reputation: 405

I find out that using peekService can bind the running service.

Such like 

IBinder ib = peekService(context, new Intent(context,
                    xxxxService.class));

((xxxxService.class)ib). do anything here...

Upvotes: 0

curioustechizen
curioustechizen

Reputation: 10672

If you have registered your receiver dynamically with Context.registerReceiver() then you can bind to a Service from the onReceive method.

However, If you have declared your BroadcastReceiver in the manifest, then you should not bind to a Service from the onReceive() method. You can start a Service though - you just cannot bind to it because bindService() is asynchronous. More details about this in the Android Dev Guide and the onReceive documentation.

Upvotes: 1

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