I think you can actually use the Intent's action to select the implementation stub that you need. In the examples, the class name is used, but I think you can use anything you want, as long as you create the appropriate intent filter for the service.
On 1 jul, 20:33, Gert <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a service working with selectable backends internally, and the > user is able to select which on to bind to. I was hoping to optimize a > bit by have that selection made by the bindService call, and just keep > a single Binder per backend implementation. Guess I'll just create a > new Binder per bindService, and point it to the backend to use. > > Anyway, thanks for the information - following the the documentation > it is :) > > Regards, > Gert Scholten > > On Jul 1, 6:24 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah that is a little wrong... the extras are very complicated, because the > > bind is cached in various places. So you will see the extras for -some- > > request to bind, but not necessarily the current one. > > > I would strongly strongly strongly urge against using extras here. There > > really is no need at all -- you will be getting back a full IPC interface to > > the object, through which you can do whatever interaction and data passing > > you want. The Intent in this API is intended -only- to identify which > > interface you are interested in. (I think I had intended the code to strip > > out the extras because of how undefined it is about what you will get, but > > apparently had forgotten to do that.) > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Gert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a question about the availability of the extras in an intent > > > passed to Service.onBind(). The documentation at > > > >http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html#onBin...)<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html#onBin...> > > > specifically states "Note that any extras that were included with the > > > Intent at that point will not be seen here.". However, extras are > > > available (emulator, SDK 1.5). > > > > Is the documentation off/outdated and are the extras available > > > intentionally, or are they unintentionally exposed to the onBind > > > method? Can we rely on extras remaining available at this point? > > > > Regards, > > > Gert > > > -- > > 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
