[android-developers] Re: What is the difference between thread and service?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Elsdörfer
From what I under understand, your application having a service running is basically just holding a (service) object that tells Android not to kill your process. The service onStart methods etc. still run in your main thread and are subject to Application not responding. You could have a

[android-developers] Re: What is the difference between thread and service?

2009-05-26 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Service doesn't. You still need to use a thread in it. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Gavin fjm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to download some data from internet. It should not block main UI thread. I know both thread and service can handle the work. What is the difference

[android-developers] Re: What is the difference between thread and service?

2009-05-26 Thread Gavin
Could you explain it? I am directly using thread. what is the issue if I don't use service? On May 27, 11:29 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Service doesn't. You still need to use a thread in it. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Gavin fjm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I