Hi all.. I am trying to make the interaction with a background service work. As I think it often happens, I need to call some method of the service from my main activity, and I need to be notified about some state changes from my service.
What I have done is to bind the background service from the activity, and to pass it a callback interface to be called from the service. Now my question: let's suppose that the callback updates some view (ie a textview) with the state of the service. What should I do when the activity gets paused? Should I unregister the interface (and check if the interface to be called is not null in the service), like a basic observer pattern? And again: what would happen if I do not unregister the interface, and the service tries to update some gui element while the activity is not visible? I know this would be solved using the intents - broadcast receiver to notify the activity, but in my case the output given from the service is supposed to vary often, and I feel binding the service is a more suitable option in my case. Hope I was clear enough, Thanks a lot in advance 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
