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Jake
Jake

Reputation: 16887

Android - passing callback from activity to service

I have a situation where an activity needs to start 2 services, one is bound, one is not.

The bound will return a Ibinder to the activity. But the activity needs to some how provide a callback to both the services, i.e. both services must be able to call some methods in a nested class in the activity.

What is the best way to do this ? Should I use broadcast from services, and then call the desired API from the onReceive() ? Or can I pass a IBinder from my activity to service in the intent, and the service could use it to make a IPC call back ?

Edit

Forgot to clarify .. the two services are in a different app than the activity.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1217

Answers (1)

Anderson K
Anderson K

Reputation: 5505

you could to use LocalBroadcastManager Sending An Intent for Activity

I believe it is the best option for this scenario EventBus or Otto

EventBus is an Android optimized publish/subscribe event bus. A typical use case for Android apps is gluing Activities, Fragments, and background threads together. Conventional wiring of those elements often introduces complex and error-prone dependencies and life cycle issues. With EventBus propagating listeners through all participants (e.g. background service -> activity -> multiple fragments or helper classes) becomes deprecated. EventBus decouples event senders and receivers and thus simplifies communication between app components. Less code, better quality. And you don't need to implement a single interface!

Upvotes: 2

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