Take a look at
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html
It depends on how you are starting the service.
On Feb 9, 5:25 am, AndroidGirl8 <walaamahmou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> i'm trying to make service getting twitter update by a thread every
> 5secs
> start service just fine and getting new twittes and inserting to
> database but i cant close service and it continue working untill force
> close
>
> here is my code :
>
> public class UpdaterServices extends Service {
>
> private static final String TAG =
> UpdaterServices.class.getSimpleName();
> updater up;
>
> @Override
> public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
> // TODO Auto-generated method stub
> return null;
> }
>
> @Override
> public void onCreate() {
> super.onCreate();
> up = new updater();
> Log.d(TAG, "check on create");
> }
>
> @Override
> public synchronized void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
> super.onStart(intent, startId);
>
> if (up.isRunning() == false) {
> up.start();
> Log.d(TAG, "check onstart");
> }
> }
>
> @Override
> public synchronized void onDestroy() {
>
> super.onDestroy();
>
> if (up.isRunning() == true) {
>
> up.interrupt();
> }
> up = null;
> Log.d(TAG, "check ondestroy");
>
> }
>
> class updater extends Thread {
>
> final static int Delay = 5000;
> private boolean running = false;
>
> public void run() {
>
> running = true;
> while (running) {
> try {
>
> // ///open database and inserting
> what we get from twitter
> // into our sqlite new schema
> DBHelper dhhelper = new
> DBHelper(UpdaterServices.this);
> SQLiteDatabase db =
> dhhelper.getWritableDatabase();
>
> Twitter twitter =
> ((MarkanaApplication) getApplication())
> .gettwitter();
> List<Status> s =
> twitter.getFriendsTimeline();
> ContentValues value = new
> ContentValues();
> for (Status w : s) {
> value.put(DBHelper.C_ID,
> w.id);
>
> value.put(DBHelper.C_CreatedAt, w.createdAt.getTime());
> value.put(DBHelper.C_User,
> w.user.name);
> value.put(DBHelper.C_Text,
> w.text);
>
> try {
>
> db.insertWithOnConflict(DBHelper.Table, null,
>
> value, SQLiteDatabase.CONFLICT_REPLACE);
> } catch (Exception e) {
>
> }
>
> Log.d(TAG, String.format("%s
> %s", w.user.name, w.text));
>
> }
>
> // ///close databases which we opened
>
> db.close();
> dhhelper.close();
>
> Log.d(TAG, "running thread");
> Thread.sleep(Delay);
>
> } catch (InterruptedException e) {
> running = false;
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
> public boolean isRunning() {
>
> return running;
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
> what is wrong in my code or how can stop service when user click on
> stop ??
> another question what better using Asynctask instead of service
> cause i can control in it better than service or service just fine ??
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