You can't use bindService from a broadcast receiver, since the
receiver might not be around long enough for your bind callback to
happen.


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mariano Kamp <mariano.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Jon.
>
> And why do you use startService instead of binding to it, get the interface,
> calls something, and get rid of the binding? I was under the impression that
> startService would be for something that runs in the background like playing
> an audio file.
>
> 2009/3/2 Jon Colverson <jjc1...@gmail.com>
>>
>> On Mar 2, 9:42 am, Mariano Kamp <mariano.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > So how does that work?
>>
>> Here's how nanoTweeter works (slightly abbreviated):
>>
>> The alarm BroadcastReceiver's onReceive() acquires a WakeLock and
>> stores it in a static field so that the Service can access it later.
>> It then starts a Service using Context.startService().
>>
>> The Service's onStart() creates a Handler for the main thread and then
>> creates and runs a new Thread. That Thread does the important work
>> then releases the WakeLock and calls Service.stopSelf() on the main
>> thread via the Handler that was set up earlier.
>>
>>
>> I pretty much copied the model that the built-in Alarm app uses:
>>
>> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/AlarmClock.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/release-1.0;hb=release-1.0
>>
>> --
>> Jon
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>

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