Can you use a LoaderManager from a Service?

Question

I have a data loading system set up using a custom Loader and Cursor that is working great from Activities and Fragments but there is no LoaderManager (that I can find) in S

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no. Loaders were designed for activities and fragments in order to cleanly handle configuration changes that occur in Activites and Fragments. i.e. Rotating your device and re-attaching to the existing data.

A service does not have any configuration changes, it will sit in the background until it completes or the system is forced to kill it. So assuming you're executing your code on a background thread in your Service (which you should be anyways), theres just no reason to use a Loader. Simply make the calls you need to query your data.

So if your Service is just an IntentService, you can write your logic to query your cursor-backed data in the onHandleIntent() method.

http://developer.android.com/guide/components/loaders.html