Service call backs to activity in android
I have a background service running and a client which interacts with the service.
When the client requests for some operation, the service performs it and it should send the result back to the activity (client).
I know how to invoke the service methods in activity and using call backs we can achieve what I want to do. But I am not able to开发者_运维技巧 understand the call back mechanism and code example provided in Api demos (remoteservice).
Could someone explain how this service callback works; or anything which is achievable using simpler mechanism.
Here is the flow
Create your intent to call a service. You can either startService()
or BindService()
with BIND_AUTO_CREATE
Once the service is bond, it will create a tunnel to talk with it clients which is the IBinder
Interface. This is used by your AIDL Interface implementation and return the IBinder
in
private final MyServiceInterface.Stub mBinder = new MyServiceInterface.Stub() {
public int getNumber() {
return new Random().nextInt(100);
}
};
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Toast.makeText(this, "Service OnBind()", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
return mBinder;
}
Once it returns the mBinder
, ServiceConnection
that you created in the client will be called back and you will get the service interface by using this
mConnection = new ServiceConnection() {
public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName name) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder service) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
mService = MyServiceInterface.Stub.asInterface(service);
};
Now you got the mService
interface to call and retreive any service from that
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