First, you do not have to start/stop a service from a Activity. You can do that in anywhere via a Context object(which is very easy to retrieve).
If you want to start a service, just call Context.startService(), form then on the service will keep running in background until you explicitly call Context.stopService(). Then call Context.bindService() if you want to control the service and Context.unbindService() when you do not want to communicate with the service anymore. Finally, Call Context.stopService() to terminate the service when it is not needed. ps: Though a service runs in "background", it runs in the main(UI) thread. On 10月16日, 下午12时38分, pink 444 <pnk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hai, > > My application has a background process which continuously waits > on a socket for receiving messages and it should be started only once > and at the time of application starting.Thus i want to do that > background job in a service. > > The service should not be started from the activity ,it should be > started at the application starting. > > How can i define the service,which will be started at the time of > application starting? > > If at all the service is started from activity.The activity can be > destroyed > and restarted.when this happens the service also be restarted . > > Any help will be appreciated highly. > > Thanks, > -SIva. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
