android timer service

Question

i need to make a timer service and bind it to an activity... i cant do it... can someone share an example of such a thing or a tutorial... ive already gone through http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/BluetoothChat/src/com/example/android/BluetoothChat/BluetoothChatService.html and the adnroid developer documention guide please help :/

Answer 1

By quickly looking over the BluetoothChatService code you mention, I've seen that the communication between the activity and the service goes through the Android Handlers.

Try to take a look on the developer documentation on how to use them. Here are also some quite good resources:

• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Handler.html
• http://www.tutorialforandroid.com/2009/01/using-handler-in-android.html