ailinykh wrote: > Hello, everybody! > Android has such concept as a Service. It makes sense for interprocess > communication. > But if I need this service from Activities running in the same process > regular singleton seems to be more convenient. > No need to register, to bind. Are there any benefits to use service > in the same process?
Using a service gives you: 1. Less chance of garbage collection problems from failing to null out the singleton. 2. Automatic shutdown (versus no automatic shutdown with a singleton) 3. A Context (Service extends Context), whereas an arbitrary singleton will not be, and you need a Context a lot of the time I'm sure I could think of other reasons, but that's what the first 30 seconds of pondering turned up. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in NYC: 4-6 June 2010: http://guruloft.com -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
