How do I contact the broadcast service using the broadcast receiver?

Question

Hope someone can help me here. I will try to be brief!

I have a widget that launches a service. The service registers two broadcast receivers. I would like to send back intentions from receivers to the service so that the service can respond.

I believe that I read somewhere that the “start” of a service works several times, for example. follow these steps in receivers:

serviceIntent.setAction("me.SERVICE");
intent.putExtra("me.SERVICE", somedata);
context.startService(serviceIntent);

I remember reading (on some blog) that this will not launch a new service, but simply convey the intention to the already running service. It's right? Is this a bad way to do this? Is there a better way?

Many thanks!

Jack

Answer 1

, 2.0.

Answer 2

, . ( 'this') onCreate, , getInstance(), . MyService.getInstance(), .