StartActivityForResult from a Service

Question

Id like to enable bluetooth like in this example.

However my class isnt a Activity but a Service and therefore I can't call startActivityForResult. How can i solve this problem?. I know there are other questions that have been answered like

use startActivityForResult from non-activity

but this doesn't solve my problem because my application consists of the service and nothing else.

Answer 1

I know this is an older question, but I've run into a similar challenge, and my solution was to create an activity with android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay", and then call startActivityForResult() from that. That creates an invisible activity that can both request and receive the intents, before writing data somewhere and then finishing itself.