How to have Android Service communicate with Activity

Question

I\'m writing my first Android application and trying to get my head around communication between services and activities. I have a Service that will run in the background an

Answer 1

As mentioned by Madhur, you can use a bus for communication.

In case of using a Bus you have some options:

Otto event Bus library (deprecated in favor of RxJava)

http://square.github.io/otto/

Green Robot’s EventBus

http://greenrobot.org/eventbus/

NYBus (RxBus, implemented using RxJava. very similar to the EventBus)

https://github.com/MindorksOpenSource/NYBus