17. Working with Services
A service within the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) can mean one of two things. First, it can mean a background process, performing some useful operations at regular intervals. Second, a service can be an interface for a remote object, called from within your application. In both cases, the service object extends the Service class from the Android SDK, and it can be a stand-alone or part of an application with a complete user interface.
In this chapter, you learn how to create and interact with an Android service. You also learn how to define a remote interface using the Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL). Finally, you learn how to pass objects through this interface by creating a class that ...
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