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Android Threads and Services Introducing Services IntentServices

Posted by praveen
praveen
11,314 Points

52 sec to restart

Will all types of services(start_sticky, start_non_sticky and start_rediliver_intent) have delay in restarting. It is 52 seconds in the example. If its a music player service, this delay will make a lot of difference to the user.

Cant the service be kept alive when the process is killed instead of restarting it?

1 Answer

Ben Deitch
STAFF
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher

Nope. The process contains the service; killing the process kills the service.

You really don't need to worry that much about the delay. If you designate your service as a foreground service, its process will be one of the very last processes to be killed in a low memory situation; and at that point you have bigger problems to deal with :). Also, low memory situations just aren't that frequent on a lot of newer devices.