A service is not running in it's own thread by default. It uses the
main thread (same thread as your activity). It is a little confusing
if you look at the lifecycles of a service and an activity so you
might think that it is running in the "background" by default.
What you should do is writing a function that starts a thread for each
download you want to do. This can look like:
class YourService extends Service {
/**
* class that will be used to create a new thread
*/
class Downloader implements Runnable {
private Uri uri;
public void setUri(Uri uri) {
this.uri = uri;
}
public void run() {
// code to download file
}
}
// inside your method start a new thread:
private void startDownloadThread(Uri uri) {
Downloader d = new Downloader();
d.setUri(uri);
Thread t = new Thread(d);
t.start();
}
}
I havn't tested this code so maybe you have to play around a little to
get it work
Am 28.08.2009 um 00:26 schrieb Justin Anderson:
> Some source code might help...
>
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>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Imran <imran...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>
> I have a service which should download files in background, i am
> calling this service form another activity,
> the problem is when i am calling this service form another
> Activity the present Activity is getting Freezed( i.e not able to get
> control back ) until the all files in service are downloaded.
>
> once all the files in the service are downloaded the activity is
> getting the control back.
>
> what i want is the the service should download all the files in
> background with effecting the Activity which called the service.
>
> Help me Guys..!!
>
> Thanks,
> Imran
>
>
>
>
> >
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