Question

Is it possible to send an intent only to one service when this one is running?
I’m aware of the functions startService() and onStartCommand() but I don’t want “start” the service, in my case it was already started.

So I would like to know if it is possible to target only one brodcast receiver or if it exits something else to send only to one service/activity?

My tries with intent.setClass() before the sendBroadcast(intent) were not concluents.

Answer 1

I’m aware of the functions startService() and onStartCommand() but I don’t want “start” the service, in my case it was already started.

startService() merely delivers a message to an existing running copy of the service, via onStartCommand(), if there is such a copy. It will create such a copy (thereby triggering a call to onCreate()) if there is no running copy of the service.

So I would like to know if it is possible to target only one brodcast receiver or if it exits something else to send only to one service/activity?

Use startService(), please.