Is there some kind of coroutine scope already handled by Android Lifecycle components for Services and IntentServices?

What kinds of services are you working with? You mention IntentService, have you looked at WorkManager?

I've seen it, but I have a SyncAdapter that needs to run a whole chain of things, and I was hoping to save the refactoring for later 🙃... so if everything is going towards

WorkManager

then `Service`s are only for building chains of work items and launching them?

There is

LifecycleService

class you can extend instead of

Service

This is part of androidx.lifecyle library

Is there any CoroutineScope that comes with that @dekans?

lifecycleScope

will come with it, as it's a

LifcyleOwner

🙂

Is there something similar for

IntentService

?

I dont think so, but in this case, implementation is pretty easy. Check the

LifecycleService

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