Services can exist in the same thread as your main app, even if you have a service you would offload background tasks to another thread than the service thread..
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:35:48 AM UTC+2, Jonathan Steele wrote: > > AsyncTask is for a background parsing then display it to UI in a short > period of times. > Service is for long running operation. > > On Sunday, May 25, 2014 3:58:37 PM UTC-4, Michael Prentice wrote: >> >> I have been trying to debug an AsyncTask in a Service today and I can't >> seem to get it to hit any of my breakpoints at all. It is very frustrating. >> >> Am I doing something wrong or does this just not yet work in Android >> Studio (0.5.8)? >> >> Michael Prentice >> GDG Space Coast >> >> >> On Thursday, August 29, 2013 5:06:01 PM UTC-4, Streets Of Boston wrote: >>> >>> Same here, but only occasionally. >>> >>> What irks me more is that putting breakpoints on multiple threads (or >>> just background threads) cause the app to hang (ANR error). After a >>> break-point has been hit, continuing may cause the debugger to block the >>> app from running and the debugger will be in a 'waiting for debugging >>> command to finish' state forever. The only way out of it is to kill the app >>> (closing Android Studio won't help; I guess the debug-socket on the app >>> remains open and blocked) and start all over. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 11:45:31 AM UTC-4, Adam Vollmer wrote: >>>> >>>> Has anyone else been having trouble with debugging multithreaded code >>>> in Android Studio? I seem to be able to reliably hit breakpoints on my >>>> main >>>> thread, but on no other thread. This means that I completely miss points >>>> that I've set the breakpoint for, making debugging a very, very >>>> frustrating >>>> experience. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
