[android-developers] Re: Equivalent to dialog display iniitiated from a service

2010-11-11 Thread Streets Of Boston
It depends. Usually your activity (either WaitActivity or some other activity of your app) starts or binds to your service. The activity is the initiator. Your service can stay around for a while. When your activity binds to your service, the activity can call your service and your service can ca

Re: [android-developers] Re: Equivalent to dialog display iniitiated from a service

2010-11-11 Thread Weston Weems
I assume when you say "tie/bind" here you aren't just referring to spawn activity via intent On Nov 11, 2010 11:03 AM, "Streets Of Boston" wrote: > Tie/bind your service to a visible activity (let's call it > WaitActivity). > > If it is really important that user reacts immediately while your > se

[android-developers] Re: Equivalent to dialog display iniitiated from a service

2010-11-11 Thread Streets Of Boston
Tie/bind your service to a visible activity (let's call it WaitActivity). If it is really important that user reacts immediately while your service chugs along and needs more info, the user'd better be looking at the phone and looking at the WaitActivity. E.g. you could show an activity (WaitActi