On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Ivan <[email protected]> wrote: > One is called "Developing an App with a Background Service (using > IPC)" > > http://mindtherobot.com/blog/37/android-architecture-tutorial-developing-an-app-with-a-background-service-using-ipc/
Sorry, but I think this service example promotes a couple things that I really wouldn't want to encourage: - Running the service in a separate process, just because. The vast majority of apps should keep their service in the same process. This greatly the interaction with the service (no IPC), and is generally a lighter-weight solution. There are certain cases where using another process is useful, but this should not be encouraged. - Running the service at boot, forever. Please please don't. Please. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
