title: Android: How to access/share a Activity bound service with another Fragment?
body: <p>I have a main Activity that's happily been working with a Service I created for a while now. Recently I've had to add a DialogFragment to my app and although its working nicely as well, I now need to make a call to my Service and pass along more than the usual Intent type strings. Basically I need to pass an array of Bitmaps to the Service, and I don't think it's reasonable to try and stuff them into an Intent.</p>
  
  <p>So I was hoping, without luck so far, that I could bind to the service while the DialogFragement is open so I can make a direct method call to the Service.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to do this? So I have to copy the entire ServiceConnection class and bind to it from onStart()? I figured there must be a less messy way to do this.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>