If you don't know why a remote service would be useful to you, don't use it. You'll know when you need one, because your local service won't work. (Basically if you get into a situation where another process needs to bind to your service.)
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Isaac Wagner <[email protected]>wrote: > I've been reading Mark Murphy's books about Android programming and I > am having trouble understanding some things about services. As I > understand it there are "local" and "remote" services that I can > create. However, what I don't understand are the use cases for when > you would use one over the other. Here's basically what I need to do > and I'm not sure about which service type to use. I want to create an > application and a homescreen widget that both get data from a service. > I had in mind a service where the application and the widget could > register a callback with the service to get data updates. Is that > best done by a remote or a local service, or does it matter? Can > either one be used? Any hints or tips would be great. Oh, if it > matters the app, widget, and service will be in a single apk. Thanks. > > -- > 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 > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
