What layer should i call my service in an MVP architecture? In the view? presenter? or model?

# android

[Joey]

What layer should i call my service in an MVP architecture? In the view? presenter? or model?

[Tim Malseed]

The Presenter

[Joey]

Thanks!

[Joey]

Oh wait @Tim Malseed, i should pass my context to the presenter? Passing the context to my presenter will break the mvp logic right? Sorry this man is a bit confused 🤯

[Tim Malseed]

You’re right that it’s not a great idea - you want to keep the Presenter as dumb as possible

[Tim Malseed]

If your service requires a context, then you should initialise your service in your view (with the context), and then pass it into your presenter.

[Tim Malseed]

Extra points if you use Dependency Injection to solve this problem

[Joey]

So what i did is this

interface IHomeView {
    fun onServiceStart()
    fun onServiceStop()
}

class HomePresenterImpl(internal var iHomeView: IHomeView):
    IHomePresenter {
    override fun serviceStart() {
        iHomeView.onServiceStart()
    }

and in my activity

override fun onServiceStart() {
        ForegroundHeartbeatService.startService(context!!, Constants.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MESSAGE)
    }

[Joey]

Is this right @Tim Malseed

[Tim Malseed]

Oh, you’re talking about an Android Service, ha, sorry I thought you were referring to an Api Service of some kind

[Tim Malseed]

Yep, that’s how I would do it

[Tim Malseed]

By the way, I would probably call this startService() rather than onServiceStart(). onServiceStart() implies the service was started and this is a callback. startService() sounds more like an action.

[Joey]

Thanks a lot! @Tim Malseed appreciate the help! B-)