Messenger to Remote Service Causing Memory Leak

Question

I have an application that communicates with a Service in a remote process using the Messenger interface. Here is the basic architecture of how th

Answer 1

I am not sure if this is the best way since, even if Activity is in the background you will get the message from Service.

I think you should bind to the service and register a messenger to the service as soon as Service is connected. And then unregister the messenger when you disconnect.

Check ExportVcardActivity in AOSP. It is following something along these lines.