Re: [android-developers] Where to start?

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Mitchell Just <mitch.just@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would the best way to do this to make a Service which handles a socket to
> the server?

Possibly. That is difficult to answer in the abstract.

However, if your objective is to deliver these messages at any time,
without the user necessarily being in your app, please try to switch
to Google Cloud Messaging. Otherwise, you would need to try to have a
service running 24x7 with an open socket connection, and that will be
difficult to write and easy for users to detest.

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