Hi, thank you for your answer, I really appreciate that :) However, my question appeared right after I've read the article you mentioned. It doesn't state, that Android can "kill" a SERVICE, even if its host PROCESS has "background" priority. It states, that Android kills entire PROCESS, based on its priority. >From my point of view, under memory pressure you have to act quickly. How much memory is it possible to free in case you stop a SERVICE? Nobody knows. In theory you can calculate retained size of an object, but in this case you have to rely on GC. When garbage collection will happen? Again, depends on GC. On the other hand, OS knows each process memory footprint. OS has their priorities. OS has enough information to act quickly and be effective under memory pressure. I can be wrong, but for me it doesn't make sense to "kill" a SERVICE without killing entire PROCESS. Yes, user can do this manually, but it doesn't mean Android does that. Again, I can be wrong. But I really need some proofs :)
Thank you, Alex On Friday, December 5, 2014 4:12:21 AM UTC+1, TreKing wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Oleksii Bieliaiev <abel.th...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> My question is, whether is it possible, under certain conditions (low >> memory, timeout, etc), that Android "kills" our started service separately, >> without killing entire process? > > > Yes, it's possible. If the process does not have a foreground UI element > (an Activity the user is using or an ongoing notification created with > startForeground) the Service is considered to be "background" and more > susceptible to being killed. > > See: > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/processes/process-lifecycle.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > -- 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.
