Android 关于绑定Services的提示

(1) 假如你只想Activity可见的时候与Service进行交互，那应该在Activity的 onStart()方法中绑定，在onStop()方法中解开绑定。

(2) 假如你想要Activity在不可见的时候(但后台仍在运行)也能与Service进行交互，那应该在Activity的 onCreate()方法中绑定，和在onDestroy()方法中解开绑定。

(3) 通常不应该在onResume()方法和onPause()方法中绑定和解开绑定，因为每次lifecycle状态转换的时候都会调用这些回调方法，假如有多个Activities绑定同一个Service,并且有两个Activities之间发生了状态转换，那么service就会被销毁和重新创建因为当前的activity会在下一个activity绑定之前停下来，与Service解开绑定。

原文:http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/bound-services.html

Here are some important notes about binding to a service:

• You should always trap DeadObjectException exceptions, which are thrown when the connection has broken. This is the only exception thrown by remote methods.
• Objects are reference counted across processes.
• You should usually pair the binding and unbinding during matching bring-up and tear-down moments of the client's lifecycle. For example:
  • If you only need to interact with the service while your activity is visible, you should bind during onStart() and unbind during onStop().
  • If you want your activity to receive responses even while it is stopped in the background, then you can bind during onCreate() and unbind duringonDestroy(). Beware that this implies that your activity needs to use the service the entire time it's running (even in the background), so if the service is in another process, then you increase the weight of the process and it becomes more likely that the system will kill it.

  Note: You should usually not bind and unbind during your activity's onResume() and onPause(), because these callbacks occur at every lifecycle transition and you should keep the processing that occurs at these transitions to a minimum. Also, if multiple activities in your application bind to the same service and there is a transition between two of those activities, the service may be destroyed and recreated as the current activity unbinds (during pause) before the next one binds (during resume). (This activity transition for how activities coordinate their lifecycles is described in the Activities document.)