Mark, I have tried moving the start Service call to a manually-managed thread within the Activity, but with the same results. The UI Thread still hangs when the Service attempts to connect to an invalid server.
Agus, In the Service, I instanciate a Connection object from which the class extends a Thread. It's in the constructor of that the Connection class where I create a new Socket. Everything works properly when I feed that constructor a good IP and Port, the problem arises when I force that Socket to throw an exception. It seems like it takes longer than the ActivityManager is willing to wait for the exception to be thrown. I have no problems binding in the Application Context, when the Service starts up normally. Thanks, J On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Agus <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried launching a thread inside your Service and have your Service > binded/started in the Application context? > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Jason LeBlanc > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have a scenario where I start a Service from a splash screen. If I >> intentionally cause problems in that Service (such as an invalid port for >> the Socket connection) my UI Thread locks up. I have put a Timer in the >> Service, and have it perform logging at every tick. The Timer works from >> within the Service without flaw. So from that, I think I have determined >> that only the UI Thread is suffering. >> >> If I start a Service from an Activity and that Service has an issue (i.e. >> server connection problems), should that result in a lockup in the UI thread >> from which it was launched? >> >> Is there a technique for starting a Service and having it truly run in >> the background? >> >> Thanks, >> J >> >> -- >> 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%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > -- > 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%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
