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Reputation: 491

persistent network connection in an android service

I'm developing a similar app to Telegram or WhatsApp, I need to keep a persistent socket connection to a server (I know this is a resource intensive job and I am sure GCM is not going to help in this case, I can't change the architecture at the moment).

First of all I tried writing a Service but since the service is running in the same process as the app's main thread, whenever the app is closed, then the service is restarted. (I have returned START_STICKY on onStartCommand()).

After that I am begining to think I would have to develope an independent service and use AIDL to interact with my app.

I'd appreciate if you could help me with this problem.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 368

Answers (1)

David Wasser
David Wasser

Reputation: 95578

Users can always kill your app if they want to. If you've marked your Service as STICKY, Android will simply restart it for you. In this case you will need to recognize that your app has been restarted and recreate the persistent socket connection. There is nothing you can do to prevent a user (or Android) from killing your app under certain conditions.

Upvotes: 1

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