Ok thanks for your answer. I am going to investigate in this way. However, according to my understanding, even though the service will have a longer life time than the thread, it still can be killed. Then, for a real safe mechanism I guess I have to take care of the problem differently meaning perhaps changing the nature of my code.
On Dec 17, 4:06 pm, Al <[email protected]> wrote: > You could create a service for the background task. Create your main > Activity, call startService(....), inside the service, create a > thread, finish your work, then call stopSelf() to stop your service. > Have a look > athttp://code.google.com/android/reference/android/app/Service.html. > Services usually last longer and killed later then usual activities > when memory is low. > > On Dec 17, 11:47 pm, polo777 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > > I am currently working on an app that uses two threads: The first main > > UI one and a secondary one that I use to retrieve some data from the > > network, parse them and finally add them into a database. > > > My question is regarding to the lifecycle of my thread. The problem is > > simple, I need the thread to end the work it is doing. > > > The user can close the activity or send it to the background at > > anytime which is not a problem for the main thread that take cares of > > the UI but the secondary thread is still running and can be killed at > > anytime stopping its work in a way that we don't control anything > > (could be working on the database, parsing...). > > > What is the best solution to handle this problem? > > > Thanks a lot in advance. > > Polo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
