Thanks again a lot for your replies.

On 24 Giu, 01:31, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Federico Paolinelli <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > If I understood correctly, I need to bind to the service in order to
> > provide it a listener, and then if I want to use the onProgressUpdate
> > for an AsyncTask started from the service, I should notify the
> > listener from the onProgressUpdate call. Is it correct?
>
> That is certainly one approach.
>

 I wasn't aware of the possibility to pass a listener to the service
after the bind, I thought that the bind was useful just from activity
--> service.

> > I thought that the standard way to update the ui from a service was to
> > send an Intent (but in this way I wouldn't be aware of the state of
> > the activity).
>
> That is another approach. I am not sure that I would necessarily cal
> it the "standard way", but you are certainly welcome to do that. In
> that case, the service would broadcast the Intent, and if an activity
> picks it up, great.

By "the standard way" I meant the way described in all the examples I
read (maybe I gotta read some other examples)

>
> --


Thanks again for the exhaustive and quick replies.

Federico

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