> > *The Service can still be killed by Android.*
Any proofs? not any proofs, but just some discussion is possible: Read this: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#startService%28android.content.Intent%29 >From above, there is a line: The only time they should be stopped is if the current foreground application is using so many resources that the service needs to be killed. This is talking about the OOM killer. In traditional Linux OOM is initiated from the kernel. But here in Android there is a special lowmemorykiller daemon: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/low-ram.html (looked out for lowmemorykiller, the name as it is) Under Android source code: frameworks/base/services/core/java/com/android/server/am/ActiveServices.java: final void killServicesLocked(ProcessRecord app, boolean allowRestart) { frameworks/base/services/core/java/com/android/server/am/ActivityManagerService.java: mServices.killServicesLocked(app, allowRestart); You can see the caller and the implementer of the function above. It is where BIND_ALLOW_OOM_MANAGEMENT parameter are checked, and thus killing the services is done if necessary. More info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18972590/the-timing-to-start-android-low-memory-killer http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904023 And this is from Linux kernel source code (under drivers/staging/android means it is still yet to be approved by linux kernel - at that time): http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.txt http://www.programering.com/a/MjNzADMwATE.html http://lwn.net/Articles/511731/ http://varun-anand.com/mem_mgmt.html 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.
