On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:38 PM, darrinps <darri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes I did. That's what I followed. Simply putting a public variable in the
> service to look at BUT how do I efficiently poll to inspect this?
>
Don't - you rarely should be polling for anything.
> I was hoping for a callback to register with the Service.
>
No one is stopping you from adding one to your service.
> >
> > > The problem is how to block waiting on that without sucking up CPU.
> >
> > Progress dialog?
>
> The Service itself already throws one up.
>
Wait ... what? A Service is not associated with a GUI - how is this even
working?
> I understand the reference, but I don't see any where in the
> example where any custom callback is done, and I don't see anything clear
> in the API on how to do that.
>
The "custom" part was my indication that this is something you do. "How" is
exactly the same way any other callback in Java works.
Something like mService.setOnCompleteListener(new ServiceCompleteListener()
{ public void onComplete(...); })
HOWEVER - I'm really thinking now that you should probably be doing this
work in the activity itself using an AsyncTask, if the activity is so
dependent on the Service's execution.
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