Thanks for the useful explanation, Lutz. This might be a newbie
question, but if you're spawning a new thread anyway, why run it in a
Service? Why not just spawn from Activity? Thanks.
On Aug 28, 6:25 am, Lutz Schönemann
<lutz.schoenem...@sit.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> 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...
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > There are only 10 types of people in the world...
> > Those who know binary and those who don't.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > 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- Hide quoted text -
>
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