Are there any coroutine bindings for `Service` in Android? We’re currently using `override fun onHan...

# coroutines

[zak.taccardi]

Are there any coroutine bindings for Service in Android? We’re currently using override fun onHandleWork(intent: Intent) in a JobIntentService and I was wondering if there was a more idiomatic way to make that function Coroutine friendly, as opposed to using runBlocking { } in there

[zak.taccardi]

found this https://gist.github.com/cbeyls/e7f874a480934d2a802873f8f8d91549

dunno if you found a better solution for this @louiscad

[louiscad]

@zak.taccardi I have some stuff to make implementing a foreground service easier and less error-prone, but for non foreground work, WorkManager is a way better solution.

[Ian Lake]

FWIW, WorkManager also supports foreground service ran work (and are forward compatible with Android 12): https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager/advanced/long-running

[Orhan Tozan]

LifecycleService with lifecycleScope?

[Ahmed Ibrahim]

@zak.taccardi Since you're using JobIntentService, I doubt LifecycleService would work. There's though ServiceLifecycleDispatcher which is designed to be used when it's impossible to use LifecycleService
https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/lifecycle/ServiceLifecycleDispatcher