Communicating with background thread of service
<p>My android service needs to have a background thread but I believe I can't use IntentService as the service needs to be running as much as possible and it won't be being started and stopped.</p>

<p>I wish to send commands from the UI to the service background thread, how best to do this . I can't do this with a StartService(intent) call as I won't be starting and stopping the service. The background thread will be performing network io continuously. Other threads may need to send commands to the service's worker thread too. </p>

<p>Any ideas most welcome
Thanks</p>
