Can bindService() be made to block?

Question

I have an Android application that uses a Remote Service and I bind to it with bindService(), which is asynchronous.

The app is useless until the service is

Answer 1

bindService() cannot be made to block. That kind of defeats the whole purpose of a Service. You said that you whole UI consists of results from the service. I think you need to rethink your UI and populate it with some kind of intermediate representation that shows the user that the app is gathering data.