Well, the missing piece is the need to do a call for runOnUIThread. Basically, I have a service that parses xml into data structures, and then does a call back to the activity. The activity can do whatever it wants with the data, but any updates to the UI require(or seem to require anyway) that they be done inside a Runnable object that gets passed to runOnUIThread, since only a single thread can do UI updates.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Murphy Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [android-beginners] Re: Return result from a service > The activity could pass a reference to itself in the call to start the > service, which the service can then call when things change. Are there examples that demonstrate services calling back into the activity? For an activity to call into a service, a lot has to happen: craft the AIDL, implement the stub in the service, create an IBinder for the interface, return said binder in the service's onBind(), etc. I have difficulty believing there's all that work for an activity to call a service, but a service calling an activity "just works". At the same time, I'd like to think there's an AIDL way for an activity to expose an interface to the service, but it's not obvious how the binders work in that direction. I feel like I'm missing a step here. Any pointers? Thanks! -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ -- Available Now! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
