Christine wrote: > In its own thread. The activity just kicks the Service using AIDL, > basically just handing it a filename, then continues with handling the > UI. The AIDL call posts a task in the service which does all the > uploading and stuff.
By "posts a task", do you mean executes an AsyncTask, or something else? > I think - but I need to do more testing - that > unbinding from the service right after the aidl call solves the > problem, but then I lose the callbacks. That seems strange. >> You can give a background thread a different priority, > > Yeah, well, the whole thing of using a service is that it's in a > separate thread and that it doesn't stop when the activity pauses or > stops or gets destroyed. Yup! > But maybe I should try forking a separate > thread from the service with a lower priority. If you are using AsyncTask, those threads are already created at a lower priority. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 1.0 Available! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
