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Amit
Amit

Reputation: 13364

Do I need a Service in my android application?

In my Application I have several Activities and a Java class with a thread. This thread continuously receives and sends messages to the web server. The Application is working fine in testing but I am worried that it may not when being used in actual phones. I am afraid that my background thread which continuously interacts with the Server might be killed by Android, while the app is in background.

Do I really need to make my threaded client class a service ? I want to start it when user signs in and stop it when the user logs off from the system.

If I need to do it please suggest some easy tutorial for it.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 278

Answers (2)

Deepzz
Deepzz

Reputation: 4571

See these links..

http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidServices/article.html

Example: Communication between Activity and Service using Messaging

http://androidtrainningcenter.blogspot.in/2012/04/simple-example-of-service-in-android.html

Upvotes: 6

kumar
kumar

Reputation: 691

As far as i think you better use TimerTask along with Timer along with any normal class or service will suffice your objective.

Upvotes: 3

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