well I am making a media player like application -- so do i want it as a separate process using AIDL?
what are the pros/cons of using a separate process with AIDL vs. a local service? On Sep 9, 10:05 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > sdphil wrote: > > if I want the service to be running after the app has been closed > > (like a media player app), then I need to have it in a separate > > process and then the localservice api demo model, won't work, right? > > No, a service can run in your main application's process without any > activities running. > > Step #1: Put the service in your main application with your activities. > > Step #2: Call startService() to start the service. > > Step #3: Call stopService() to stop the service when you are done with it. > > Now, it is not a good idea to keep services running any more than you > have to. The media player is a rather unusual case. I wrote up a post > about this just a couple of hours ago: > > http://www.androidguys.com/2009/09/09/diamonds-are-forever-services-a... > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Training:http://commonsware.com/training.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
