You can't update UI from a service, and can't perform sustained tasks from an Activity.
So, by way of excluding the impossible, you should end up with a sort of canonical design. An Activity for the UI, a service with a worker thread to perform lengthy network-related tasks, working together to form what is hopefully a great application. -- Kostya Vasilyev -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com 24.08.2010 23:55 пользователь "TreKing" <[email protected]> написал: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:34 PM, tarek attia <[email protected]>wrote: > so which is better This will be highly dependent on your implementation of either option, neither of which I think you've explained clearly enough for anyone to really make an educated guess on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers"... -- 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

