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Amit Yadav
Amit Yadav

Reputation: 35044

Service + android:process "vs" IntentService

As we know difference between Service and IntentService is that IntentService implicitly spawn worker thread whereas Service run on process main (UI) thread.

That is apparently showing what the difference between them.

But my question is that is there any difference between

Service + android:process "vs" IntentService

I mean to say if we launch Service in a separate process than still any difference between them except Service uses Process whereas IntentService uses Thread.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 815

Answers (1)

kalyan pvs
kalyan pvs

Reputation: 14590

You are completely misundertand the Concept of Process and Thread.

IntentService run in a diffrent Thread but run in main process.

For Every Application by default there is a only one process,in which all of your code will run including Services,Activitys And IntentService too.

When ever you start your Service in a new process then that Service has allocated with separate memory and heap area.It will not directly communicate with the main process.For communication purpose you need to use AIDL

For more info check this Process and Threads

Upvotes: 5

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