Question

I need some help in understanding when and why to use Remote Service instead of local service. There are several cases where one can use a local service. For example: playing music in background, downloading files from network without interrupting the user. But i am unable to found a similar use case scenarios where i have to use Remote Service.

I am very curious about the scenarios where one can use Remote Services.

Any help is appreciated. I dont wanna know how to implement it. I know the technical part on how to implement it, do the interprocess communication. All i want to know is when to use this.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Remote services are used when different applications need to communicate with said service. Having a service that, say, tracks your location, can be accessed from multiple applications using remote services.