How do I bind this service in Android?

Question

This is the code in my Activity. Initiate an Intent, then a Connection, right?

hello_service = new Intent(this         


        

Answer 1

Binding to a service from an Activity should be avoided as it causes probems when the Activity Configurations change (e.g. if the device is rotated the activity would get created again from scratch and the binding would have to be re-created).
Please refer to the comment from Commonsware on the following post on stackoverflow
Communicate with Activity from Service (LocalService) - Android Best Practices