sending data from activity to Intentservice

Question

my needs is to send data from activity to IntentService

(from class that extends activity, to class that extends IntentService)

i successed to send to sample service, by using BroadcastReciver, but i want to extend IntentService class and not service

someone know how can i do that?

from

public class MainActivity extends Activity { ... }

to

public class MyIntentService extends IntentService { ... }

Answer 1

Put the data in an Intent extra that you use with the startService() call to start your IntentService. Then, the IntentService can read that extra in onHandleIntent().