Yes the intents will be enqueued and handled one at a time on the other thread. Context.startService() is always asynchronous, no matter what the service does.
IntentService derives from Service (it is a convenience class implementing one common Service pattern), so it inherits all of the functionality of Service. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Federico Paolinelli <[email protected]>wrote: > I have to process some events given by a broadcast receiver. > As kindly suggested by Mark M. a week ago, I am trying to send the > intent to an intentservice in order to pass the data to be processed > to another thread. > > Looking at the doc, I can read abot onHandleIntent: > "Only one Intent is processed at a time, but the processing happens on > a worker thread that runs independently from other application logic. > So, if this code takes a long time, it will hold up other requests to > the same IntentService, but it will not hold up anything else. > > What does it mean? Will the intents be queued and then processed one > by one, or does it mean that the startService will block if the > intentService is busy processing a previous intent? > > And more (this is just my curiosity): > What is the point in having a onStartCommand method in IntentService > if the Intents must be processed in "onHandleIntent"? > > Why the IntentService has all the onBind facilities if it will die > when it finish its job? > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > Federico > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
