Question

In my app I’ve designed it to have a Service that gets data constantly (for good reason, it’s from some sensors) and provides it to two clients:

• A UI Activity to display the live data
• Another service that logs the data

At any time, both, one or neither of these clients may be running.

I think that this service should be a Bound service, whereas the logging service is a Started service.

The Android documentation for this says I should extend the Binder class, or use a Messenger if I want to access the service from another process.

This service, the logging service and the UI Activity will all be in the same apk, so they’ll presumably be in the same process – but what is going to be the best solution here? I suspect the documentation might not be taking into account the possibility that I could have two clients in the same process as the service.

Thanks

Answer 1

imrankhan’s preferred solution (Binder) did seem to work, but in the end I opted for a Messenger as in practise I found this solution more flexible and logical to code.