You do not need a remote service within a single application, as
your sample illustrates. While you can use AIDL and binding for local
services, it's unclear if there are any benefits compared to just
using a local Binder. Remote services -- where the client and service
are in separate applications -- *do* need AIDL if you want to use the
binding pattern.
Also, using setClassName() as you have it is an anti-pattern. For
local services, use the constructor that takes the actual class. For
remote services, the service should publish an intent-filter that is
stable (e.g., using a custom action string). Even better is to publish
one intent-filter per version of the exported API. Your code as
written will break when the service author refactors their code, and
the service has no way to know which version of the service's API the
client wants to receive.
Also, your client (Activity) never unbinds from the service, which is
bad form. If you bind to the service, unbind from it. If the service
is supposed to live past the end of the client's life, you should be
using startService().
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Jignesh Kakkad(Jiggy)
jig2n...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
I thought this sample code would be useful to someone.
http://tips-tricks.weblogforfun.com/2011/05/31/creating-remote-background-service/
Please feel free to comment on the same (if you think there is any other way
to improve it)
Thanks
Regards
Jiggy
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