how does a service return result to an activity

Question

I seem to have a classic task, yet I can\'t find any examples on how to do it.

I want to download something. Well I call a web service and get a response... but it\'

Answer 1

Send a broadcast Intent with the data via sendBroadcast(), that the activity picks up with a BroadcastReceiver.

Here's an example of that: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-android/tree/master/Service/WeatherAPI Doc: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html