I don't see you creating a service anywhere in your code service, so I'm not sure what you mean about creating one and not having it run... yes, if you don't create one for your service there won't be one for it to run. :}
You need to make a thread in your service -- either in onCreate() or onStart() -- in which to do your work, and quit the thread at the appropriate time when done. Or you really may want to consider just using IntentService to let it take care of this for you: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/IntentService.html On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:19 AM, abhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > I created a new thread and tried starting the service from there, but > the service is not being started from the new thread. When I set a > break point in the new thread, it does not hit and there is nothing > updated on logcat. Any ideas as to why this is happening? > > From my main class, I am creating a new thread and starting it: > Thread th = new Thread(new ServiceStarter()); > th.start(); > > In the ServiceStarter, class I am creating the service and starting > it: > > class ServiceStarter extends Activity implements Runnable > { > > @Override > public void run() > { > try > { > Intent service = new Intent > (ServiceStarter.this,Alarm.class); > startService(service); > > } > catch(Exception ex) > { > ex.printStackTrace(); > } > } > } > > > My service looks like this: > > public class MyService extends Service > { > > @Override > public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) > { > return null; > } > > @Override > public void onCreate() > { > super.onCreate(); > } > > @Override > public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) > { > boolean loopVar = true; > > while(loopVar == true) > { > //Do stuff > if(condition) > { > //Exit the loop > loopVar = false; > } > } > } > } > > On Oct 11, 12:54 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Services don't take focus input focus -- a service doesn't cause the > current > > window to lose input focus, nor the foreground activity to be paused. > > If you mean the thread of your activity isn't running, then you may just > be > > doing all your work in the service on the main thread. Please note that > a > > service's callbacks (but not necessarily calls through any IBinder > interface > > it publishes) happen on the main thread. If you want to run on another > > thread, you'll need to make it yourself. > > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:21 AM, abhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I am starting a service from an activity. Once the services starts, > > > the calling activity loses focus and blocks till the service is > > > completed. Why is this and is there a way around it to return the > > > control to the calling activity while the service runs in the > > > background? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see > and > > answer them. > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
