Waiting for asynchronous callback in Android's IntentService

Question

I have an IntentService that starts an asynchronous task in another class and should then be waiting for the result.

The problem is that the IntentSer

Answer 1

You are doomed without changing MyOtherClass.

With changing that class you have two options:

1. Make an synchronous call. IntentService is already spawning a background Thread for you.
2. Return the newly created Thread in runAsynchronousTask() and call join() on it.