I did something similar, however, i did not use a BroadcastReceiver to get callbacks back from the service. Instead i used the RemoteCallbackList class:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/RemoteCallbackList.html No fiddling with intents and such. Just define a callback interface and bind to it in your client and call it in your service and you're done. It works like a breeze :-) On Mar 16, 6:16 am, BoD <bodl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Replying myself, for future reference. > For the scheduling part I used AlarmManager and a Service as mentioned > before. > For the "notification back" part I ended up using sendBroadcast from > the service and a BroadcastReceiver on my Activity (registering/ > unregistering it in onResume/onPause). It works fine. > > BoD > > On Mar 15, 7:22 pm, BoD <bodl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > I'm trying to find the "correct" way to do the following: > > > . I have an activity with a button that starts a repeating task in the > > background. That is, if the user goes away from my activity, I want my > > task to still be scheduled and executed every x minutes. > > > . I want a status TextView to be displayed on the activity, and if the > > task happens to start executing while my activity is showing, the > > TextView should be updated so the user can be aware of what's going > > on. > > > So basically, is there a way to start a scheduled background repeating > > task and be notified when it is executed? > > > From what I saw in the sample applications, I understand I'm supposed > > to use AlarmManager and a Service but I'm not sure about the > > notification part. > > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > > BoD- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
