patrick wrote: > I am a little confused about the difference between services and > processes in Android. From what I understood: > - each package may run as one process
At minimum. A package might have more than one process, though that is discouraged. > - therefore an activity is a process No, because a package may have more than one activity. > - a service runs in the main thread of an activity (therefore it > needs to run in the same process) If it is a local service, yes. Or, in your AndroidManifest.xml file, you could specify that the service is to run in another process. > - but from what I know a service uses another address space than the > hosting activity A local service shares the address space with anything else in that process, including, possibly, one or more activities. > - because I don't know of another way in Linux to create a new > virtual memory space than by using a new process I assume, that a > service is actually a new process Only if you set it up that way in AndroidManifest.xml. And, again, this is discouraged. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, 2009 http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
