Thanks. That's exactly what I want to do! On Nov 1, 4:01 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:50 PM, jotobjects <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a remaining uncertainty. Can multiple Activities use the same > > ServiceConnection with bindService() and unbindService()? > > I would recommend against that. In theory it would work, but I think you > are going to be in a world of trouble once you start trying to figure out > what is going on inside your service connection. > > > My idea is to have Activities call bindService in Activity.onStart() > > and unbindService in Activity.onStop() and just leverage using the > > same ServiceConnection. So when one Activity calls onStop the next > > started Activity will have already called onStart() and the Service > > will be continuously bound to the current active foreground Activity. > > As soon an Activity comes to the front that does not call > > bindService() the Service becomes eligible for reaping... Does that > > make sense? > > That won't do what you want -- you will still see individual > connected/disconnected calls for each binding. > > This is a good place for use of a singleton -- write a singleton that > manages the connections, with activities telling when they start and stop. > It can ensure it is bound as long as at least one activity is started. Be > sure to use Context.getApplicationContext() to bind with that instead of > with whatever activity happened to called. > > -- > 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.
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