Hi guys!

I would like to know if it's possible to know which activity has launched a service.
For example: I have an activity that send an intent to a service. From the service class constructor I would like to have the reference to the class which launch the intend.

Is that possible?

Thank you in advance!

Hi dani.vitali,

I don't think the sender is part of the intent so it is not available to get. You might send some piece of data with it when you start it I guess, that way, you would know it was from your app. Others would not send it and you would know it was from some other app. Something like that.

Of course any app that knows what to do with your service could send it information about itself. Otherwise, if your app is just registered to handle certain things and apps just broadcast for the app that best handles their content, well you can see the problem. They wouldn't know whether your app was going to handle it or not. But all of your activities that require that service could.

Hope this helps.

Phyll

Hi dani,
As Phyll stated, we cannot get the information about the originator of the service,but if you needed u can send from the service by having a varible of the originator or just send through an intent while replying from service.

This is mainly due to the behavior of android towards the creation of services,android creates these services as deamon threads which never die literally.