Re: [android-developers] Getting reference to service

bindService

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/bound-services.html

2011/11/21 mgolds02 <mgolds02@gmail.com>:
> I'm trying to write a simple service that will poll RSS data from an
> RSS feed on start up.  However, the RSS data isn't needed until a
> specific activity in my app is started.  I have the service written
> and it is started via the main activity.  I'm wondering how to obtain
> a reference to that service.  I know startService() will return a
> ContextName of the service if it is already started.  Can I somehow
> create a service object from that?  Or do I have to go through the
> trouble of creating message handlers and do a request-response type of
> setup between my service and activity?  I also toyed with the idea of
> creating a singleton object and just initializing it on start up but
> I'm very much opposed to the idea of singletons in general.  That
> would be the lazy way out :p  If I am thinking to much into it and
> there is a simpler way to accomplish this please let me know.
>
> Thanks!
>
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