How to create two cooperating but non-blocking services in Android?
<p>I am confused about where Android services run. I know services marked 'remote' run in their own processes, but what about ordinary local services? </p>

<p>The reason I ask is I want two local services to cooperate but not be blocked by each other. So for example, Service1 manages a network connection and receives packets. On receipt of a packet, I need that service to hand-off the packet to Service2 that processes the information and takes some action, including possibly sending a return message. I need the receipt, hand-off and processing to happen asynchronously, so the network service can continue to receive packets whilst the application service processes them. How do I ensure this happens?</p>

<p>I know one solution is to broadcast Intents, but how do I include custom data objects (i.e. packets) in an Intent? I don't want to implement the parcelable interface (overkill for local services) but I really need to be able to hand-off complex data objects between the services.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>
