How to get results from an IntentService back into an Activity?

Question

I am using an IntentService to handle network communications with a server via JSON. The JSON/server part is working fine, but I\'m having trouble getting the results back

Answer 1

There's many ways to do stuffs in background getting back a result (AsyncTask, bind an Activity to a Service...), but if you want to mantain your IntentService's code you can simply:

1- send a broadcast intent (that contains the status in its extended data) at the end of the work in your IntentService

2- implement a LocalBroadcastReceiver in your Activity that consumes the data from the Intent

This is also the recommended way in the official documentation (if you want to mantain your IntentService):

https://developer.android.com/training/run-background-service/report-status.html