Thanks for your feedback guys. The experience I shared there was practical - and there are times and requirements when you do need to start a service at the boot time, and it's really better to run it in a separate process. For example, any mail-like application would have such requirements. It's probably the simplicity of the functionality of that small example that makes the chosen architecture look a bit overshot.
Now, I would be happy to hear something about the loopers and the handlers. :) On Jun 4, 1:35 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > - Running the service in a separate process, just because. The vast > > majority of apps should keep their service in the same process. This > > greatly the interaction with the service (no IPC), and is generally a > > lighter-weight solution. There are certain cases where using another > > process is useful, but this should not be encouraged. > > Demonstrating remote services using a Twitter app is reasonable -- heck, > I do that myself. It's impossible to make a realistic scenario for > remote services and keep it short. > > However, I would do it with separate APKs, highlighting remote services > being used for inter-application integration. That should be the more > common use of remote binding and such. > > > - Running the service at boot, forever. Please please don't. Please. > > Yeah, that's fairly evil. > > http://www.androidguys.com/2009/09/09/diamonds-are-forever-services-a...http://www.androidguys.com/2010/03/29/code-pollution-background-control/ > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.0 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to 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
