title: Advice on structuring a service, activity, thread
body: <p>can someone please help me?</p>
  
  <p>I would like to write a program which uses a service to periodically update a text view on an activity.</p>
  
  <p>I do this by having ActivityA with a 2 buttons to start/stop my service. In the service I run a timer which triggers every second. From here I need to have this launch and update a text view on ActivityB which at present is just a counter value.</p>
  
  <p>I'm sure there are likely better ways to do this, such as using only one activity, maybe using a thread but the main design consideration is to have the service running even if my activity is destoyed (the counter value would instead go trigger some alarm or file write instead of a text view update).</p>
  
  <p>Sorry for rambling. I find the android developer resources offer too many solutions!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>Ben</p>