I was wondering if there was any technique to bind to a local service synchronously. Of course if the service was remote it would be an especially bad idea, but binding to a local service seems to happen quickly.
The situation i often run into is that ServiceConnection.onServiceConnected() isn't called at a convenient time. For example, if you want to invoke a method on a local service in onActivityResult() but bind/unbind on onStart/onStop. The service still won't be available by the time onActivityResult() is called. I did come across this: http://code.google.com/p/google-cache-invalidation-api/source/browse/trunk/src/java/com/google/ipc/invalidation/external/client/android/service/ServiceBinder.java Which uses a CountdownLatch to gate the calling thread, but my attempts to use it have resulted in deadlock. I even tried binding to the service from another thread, hoping that ServiceConnection.onServiceConnected() would be called from the thread which called bindService, but this does not seem to be the case. 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
