serviceconnection – Tarik Billa

Android how do I wait until a service is actually connected?

May 17, 2023 by Tarik

How can I wait for ServiceConnection.onServiceConnected being called reliably? You don’t. You exit out of onCreate() (or wherever you are binding) and you put you “needs the connection established” code in onServiceConnected(). Are all the event handlers: Activity.onCreate, any View.onClickListener.onClick, ServiceConnection.onServiceConnected, etc. actually called in the same thread Yes. When exactly is ServiceConnection.onServiceConnected actually going … Read more

Activity has leaked ServiceConnection @438030a8 that was originally bound here

December 1, 2022 by Tarik

You haven’t provided any of your code from LightFactoryRemote, so this is only a presumption, but it looks like the kind of problem you’d be seeing if you were using the bindService method on it’s own. To ensure a service is kept running, even after the activity that started it has had its onDestroy method … Read more