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Arun Abraham
Arun Abraham

Reputation: 4037

Android Service and thread

Is a "Service" in android same as a separate thread ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1024

Answers (2)

garima
garima

Reputation: 5244

A Service is not a separate process. The Service object itself does not imply it is running in its own process; unless otherwise specified, it runs in the same process as the application it is part of. A Service is not a thread. It is not a means itself to do work off of the main thread (to avoid Application Not Responding errors).

Upvotes: 1

Boris Pavlović
Boris Pavlović

Reputation: 64622

From Service javadoc:

Note that services, like other application objects, run in the main thread of their hosting process.

So the answer is No.

Upvotes: 4

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