What's the right way to send messages from my IntentService back to an Activity?
<p>I have an app in which the main Activity starts an AlarmReceiver that calls an IntentService that runs in the background and does stuff.  I'm unclear on what the correct way is to check on the IntentService's actions and present the end-user with some feedback in the visible Activity that they're in, on the IntentService's current state.  In my ideal world there can be an icon somewhere on the screen that I can set to notify the user of what's going on with the IntentService. I don't need the user to be able to *do anything, just have feedback.</p>

<p>All advice welcome.</p>
