Re: [android-developers] Re: startService() runs the service in a seperate process?

2011-07-14 Thread Dianne Hackborn
No that is absolutely not true. Services run in the same process as other components (unless you explicitly change this with android:process). Services run in the same THREAD as your other components. All of this is documented here:

Re: [android-developers] Re: startService() runs the service in a seperate process?

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Murphy
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: A Service is not a separate process. The Service object itself does not imply it is running in its own process; unless otherwise specified, it runs in the same process as the application it is part of. A Service is not