On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:41 AM, patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  - therefore an activity is a process
>   - but from what I know a service uses another address space than the
> hosting activity


If there is anything in
http://code.google.com/android/intro/appmodel.htmlor the other docs
leading you to this conclusion, please let me know what
that is so we can fix it. :)


> - how are AIDL IPC calls synchronized when they are different
> processes?


There is a special driver in the kernel called "binder" that takes care of
these IPCs.

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