How many ways for an android service to interact with other components in one application

Question

In Android defined by a specific Service , how many methods exist for this Service to communicate with other components (activity, content provider, recipient, other services)?

As far as I know, there are at least 7 methods:

• StartService
• AIDL / bindService
• sendBroadcast
• startActivity
• Notification
• messaging engine
• Ashmem

Are there any others?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Like gunar , you can also use Event Manager .

Most Popular:

• Otto (square)
• EventBus (greenrobot)

The documentation itself explains, but if you need help getting started, let me know.

Regards, Ryan

Answer 2

If you want to classify them, I would do it as follows.

• Communication using intentions

• Broadcast intents (global and local )
• Component intentions (start, start service)
• System notifications

2. Interprocess communication (IPC) can also be used for the in-process process.

• Related Services
• Using Messenger

3. Communication through shared objects.

• Using Singleton (e.g. applications or other singleton classes)
• Using the event bus (EventBus, TinyBus , Otto)