Seems like it was just a way to reuse code which sometimes runs inside a proper service, and sometimes is called from an activity.
-- K 2012/11/1 Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> > Ah, good.. I had simply assumed that was a commonish pattern I had never > read about, but it makes sense... (I don't actually do much app writing > these days..) > > kris > > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Nikolay Elenkov <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Kristopher Micinski >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > Slightly odd and nonstandard use of a Service to organize the app >> design, >> > but still useful. >> > >> >> This has been reported ages ago without an answer: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/marketbilling/issues/detail?id=8 >> >> Last answer is the most useful, I think. >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- > 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 > -- 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
