On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM, maecky <[email protected]> wrote: > How do I know if the service has already been started (therefore i > would only need to bind to the service again) or not (then I would > need to call startService() first and then bind to the service)?
You don't know. > What would happen, if I call startService() if the service is already > running? Nothing much. The service will be called with onStart(), so if you are overriding that, you will get control there. > Does the OS start a second service, or will it affect the > service which is already running? At most one instance of a service will be running at one time. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 2.2 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- 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
