I read that before posting a question, but found inconsistent terminology in the Android documentation confusing. For example, the Service documentation says things like: "It is still theoretically possible for the service to be killed under extreme memory pressure from the current foreground application, but in practice this should not be a concern," which makes it seem like killing a service and killing a process are often independent from each other.
But you've clarified that for me, so thanks! On Dec 15, 8:31 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > The decision to kill is at the process level, based on the most important > thing running in the process: > > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#proclife > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > *bump* > > > Again, the question is: if there are multiple services within a > > process and at least one service is a "foreground" service, will that > > keep the non-foreground services alive? > > > Thanks, > > Carter > > > The documentation > > > On Nov 23, 10:40 pm, Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is probably a question for Dianne: > > > > The Android 2.0 SDK introduces the startForeground() API which makes > > > it much less likely that a background service (and therefore a given > > > process) will be killed. > > > > Suppose there are two services within a process, and one of those > > > services has called startForeground() while the other has not. Will > > > the one foreground service "protect" the other non-foreground service > > > from being killed? > > > > I'm specifically looking at a case where there could be multiple > > > services within a process, but coming from different APKs. So these > > > would be APKs signed with the same signature, and given the same > > > sharedUserID and process in the Android Manifest. I'd like to avoid > > > having to post a notification for each individual service, as that > > > would likely annoy users. > > > > Thanks! > > > Carter > > > -- > > 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]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > [email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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
