There's nothing wrong with using aidl, I just guide people away from it because usually they are unhappy to deal with it and don't need it anyway. :)
One thing people often do is make a common base class (or helper class that include an instance of) that provides this functionality that is used across a variety of activities. I realize the dealing with the async nature of binding to services is annoying, but unfortunately that's the way it is. Unfortunately I don't know that the local process globals would help a lot here -- you still must have each activity bind to the service if it needs it to be running. But if your activity just wants to use the service if it happens to already be running, and you can stomache making your components have a more carnal relationship, then globals can simplify a lot. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Noonien Soong <[email protected]>wrote: > > > It's a convenient short-cut. If you are philosophically opposed to such > > things you can go the more formal route and make things harder on > yourself. > > :) > > > > hehe, that seems to be the story of my life :-) ... the reluctance to > do things the easy way. > > By the way, thanks Dianne for the replies! > > I am using AIDL-defined interfaces right now. I guess I went a little > bit too far maybe. Currently I have one service to which I bind from > two different activities with plus 1 callback-interface each. > > Now I'm starting to rethink this architecture because I'm adding more > and more activities which need to talk to the service running in the > background. Having a separate binding for each activity is starting to > seem a bit too much.. > > > > -- 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. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
