On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:38 PM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldevelo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am curious what API or method Android used to kill a specific thread in >> a process too.....but your link above did not say anything on that? >> Please enlighten me :-). > > > I'm not sure what you're asking. The OP didn't ask anything about killing > a specific thread. He question was about killing a Service without killing > the entire hosting process. > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldevelo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> a service is a thread in a process, > > > What? No it's not. Where'd you get that? > > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html#WhatIsAService > Second bullet point: "A Service is *not* a thread" > well...you contradict yourself: same URL you quote: "Note that services, like other application objects, run in the main thread of their hosting process." So, ok, service is not a thread, but the "main thread" is running the service. And therefore, everything is still implemented as threads. See this: http://www.androidenea.com/2009/07/system-server-in-android.html And you can see that system_server process has many threads, each running different services for Android. To quote: "We see that the power manager is started first, followed by the activity manager and the other services. There are a lot more services started after these initial and if you are interested take look in the SystemServer.java file. Each service is running in a separate Dalvik thread in the SystemServer process." see detailed picture here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fcXaF6gx74U/Skt-LUxMZSI/AAAAAAAAAB0/WsPol_qxwL4/s1600/SystemServer_threads.png -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
