is there a better way to switch to activity from a service

[melamoud]

I know it is not recommended, but in my case it make sense I think / hope

I want UI to pop up when user press a hardware button, I got the service to react to it, and I need to pop the UI (activity)
right now I'm using startActivity and its sometimes really slow,
is there any other / better way ?

thanks

 

[Erel]

StartActivity should not be slow. Add a log message before you call StartActivity. You will probably find that the message interception is the slow part.