The whole purpose of a service is to stay in the background doing something,
so not sure why you would want to display a UI in a non-UI based app. As
Dianne said, post a notification that shows up on the status bar... when the
user slides it down and clicks on it, that can launch an activity...
Hi,
I have a Service which needs to receive data from external packages.
So, to locate the data providing external packages, I use activity-
filter and PackageManager.queryIntentActivities function to locate the
interesting packages.
Now, from each such package, I need to get a ContentProvider
You can't do this, nor should you. This would pop your UI in front of the
user, disrupting whatever they are doing. This is highly discouraged. The
proper way to do this is to post a notification, which the user can respond
to when desired and can cause your own activity to be launched, which
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