How to bind two Android Activities to one Service?

Question

I would like to ask for some example, where two different activities (button in first activity open second activity), are communicating with one service (AIDL, etc.) I\'ve tried

Answer 1

This is probably old, but I'll try to answer it anyways...

In Android, seeing as only one Activity can bind to a Service at a time, and only one Activity can be shown at a time, there is no real reason to want to bind 2 Activities at a time.

But, if you'd like, the best solution is to bind the Service in the onResume() method, and unbind it in the onPause() method. This allows you to give two un-related Activities access to the service, while only having one bound at a time.