You need to use aidl if you want to call another process. But if you want to interact with the service from activities of the same application, you can call the methods directly from the activity.
Check for example this sample code from Mark's tutorial: http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-andtutorials/tree/master/18-LocalService/ On 10 Set, 19:32, Donal Rafferty <[email protected]> wrote: > As in the following piece of code...? : > > bindService(bindIntent, mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE); > > I do that but I think I do require the aidl to be able to call methods from > the service? > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Federico Paolinelli > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > In any case, I meant binding the activity to the service using > > bindService method without passing from the aidl. > > In this way you will get direct access to the methods of the service > > directly from the activity. In this way, I suppose you can pass the > > service an interface to get called when your asynctask finished its > > job. > > > Try to google for service binding examples. > > > Hope this helps (and I hope I am not saying bullshit as well :-) ) > > > Federico > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Donal Rafferty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > No luck :( > > > > --- > > > > package com.xxx.phone.ui; > > > > import android.media.Ringtone; > > > > interface ICallDialogActivity{ > > > void sendRingTone(in RingTone aRingTone); > > > } > > > > --- > > > > I get the red x beside the import and "coundn't find import for class > > > android.media.Ringtone;" > > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Donal Rafferty <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > Is that possible? > > > >> > I have a bind between my Service and the Activity at the minute but > > when > > >> > I > > >> > try to change to aidl file to allow me pass the RingTone object it > > wont > > >> > compile for me, saying RingTone and com.android.RingTone cannot be > > >> > resolved/found > > > >> Try android.media.Ringtone. > > > >> -- > > >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > > >>http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguy > > >>http://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > >> Android Training in London:http://skillsmatter.com/go/os-mobile-server > > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > >> Groups "Android Developers" group. > > >> To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > -------- > > Federico > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
