Then you should call join() in onDestroy after calling myBackgroundThread.stopThread() causing onDestroy to wait until your background thread to end.
Make sure that your background thread never blocks or takes too long to shut-down. If onDestroy is waiting too long, your user's ain't gonna be happy :-) On May 28, 4:28 am, Gautam <gautam_raychaudh...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I need to make sure, that onDestroy returns only after proper clean up > by the background thread. > Else (according to my understanding) OS may kill the process hosting > the service before proper cleanup. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---