Android Activity communication with IntentService

Question

I need to have a two way communication between my activity and a running IntentService.

The scenario is like this: the app can schedule alarms which on run, start an IntentService which fetches some data from web and process it. There are three possible situations when IntentService finishes:

1. The app is in focus, which means that when the IntentService will finish, the app needs to refresh its views with the new data.

2. The app is closed and when opened after IntentService has finished the work, so the app will have access to processed data

3. The app is opened while the IntentService is running, in which case I need to have a way from the activity to ask the IntentService if its doing something in the background.

For 1. I have already implemented a BroadcastReceiver in my activity which gets registered with the LocalBroadcastManager. When IntentService finishes the work, sends a broadcast and the activity reacts. This works fine

For 2. There is nothing needed to be done

For 3. I don't know what to do. So far I've tried this:

In Activity:

LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).sendBroadcast(new Intent(BROADCAST_SEND_TO_SERVICE));

In IntentService

private LocalBroadcastManager localBroadcastManager;
    private BroadcastReceiver broadcastReceiverService = new BroadcastReceiver() {
        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            if (intent.getAction().equals(BROADCAST_SEND_TO_SERVICE)) {
               //does not reach this place
               //Send back a broadcast to activity telling that it is working
            }
        }
    };

  @Override
    protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {


        localBroadcastManager = LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(context);
        IntentFilter intentFilter = new IntentFilter();
        intentFilter.addAction(BROADCAST_SEND_TO_SERVICE);
        localBroadcastManager.registerReceiver(broadcastReceiverService, intentFilter);
.... //do things

}

The problem with my implementation is that n the IntentService the BroadcastReceiver does not fire onReceive. Any suggestions or maybe a simpler way for the Activity to ask the IntentService what it is doing?

LE: Trying to get atomicboolean. In Service:

public static AtomicBoolean isRunning = new AtomicBoolean(false);

 @Override
    protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
        isRunning.set(true);
        // do work
        // Thread.sleep(30000)
        isRunning.set(false);
}

In Activity, restarting the app while service is running:

    Log(MyIntentService.isRunning.get());

//this returns always false, even if the intent service is running

On AndroidManifest

 <service
            android:name=".services.MyIntentService"
            android:exported="false" />