Android how do I wait until a service is actually connected?

Question

I have an Activity calling a Service defined in IDownloaderService.aidl:

public class Downloader extends Activity {
 IDownloaderService downloader = null;
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Answer 1

I figured out that these workarounds are only worth the effort and the wait only if your bound services are running in a different process than your application's main process.

For accessing data and methods in the same process (or application), I ended up implementing singleton classes. If the classes need a context for some methods, I leak the application context to the singleton classes. There is, of course, a bad consequence of it as it breaks the "instant run". But that is an overall better compromise, I think.