November 2010
1 post
Android: using services over separate threads
From Application Fundamentals.
Because a process running a service is ranked higher than one with background activities, an activity that initiates a long-running operation might do well to start a service for that operation, rather than simply spawn a thread — particularly if the operation will likely outlast the activity. Examples of this are playing music in the background and uploading a...
September 2010
2 posts
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