Android - Inter thread communication and network socket

Question

Hi

this is what I am trying to achive

1) My main application/activity starts a thread to listen to network messages (tcp). But I want this thread to listen to network messages (on tcp socket) as well as messages from main activity. I am exploring if I can use socket for network messages and Looper for internal messages. I dont think it will work as Looper is blocking.

In unix, we used Select to poll sockets to listen to messages on different sockets. Please advice how I can achieve Select like capability in Android?

Thanks! Manu

Answer 1

assumed you are listening to the network messages in a service you could youse intents to communicate between your activity and the service.

have a look at Intents and Intent Filters in the android documentation