Question

I’m having problems trying to find the best way to do two-way server communications, asynchronously. I am able to do the server communications hard coded to a server (no encapsulation, async calls), but I want to know what the best way to do it is. There’s a protocol for logging in, registering, changing location, etc.
The server communications are using JSON and HTTPPost. The app would be sending JSON data and receiving it and putting it into a database.

I thought of making a ServerCommuncations class which holds data such as username, password, etc. and instantiates the HTTPRequest objects and other common objects. This could be inside a Bound service.

Now I could use a Bound Service with an AsyncTask, however multiple Activities in the app will need to do server communications so it would mean binding the service to multiple Activities.

1. Is this possible?
2. Is there a better way?
3. If I was to use the bound service, would it be best to use Messengers or extend Binder class?

What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

A possibility is to use IntentService for handling asynchronous code.