Re: [android-developers] What is the use of services in Android?

You send a message to the service to stop the thread.  Then the service stops the thread, by setting some flag or condition variable.

Kris

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:04 PM, ashish <ashish.acet@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

if a service starts a  new thread then how i can stop the service from the other class.

On Thursday, August 8, 2013 3:51:19 AM UTC-8, Kristopher Micinski wrote:

Usually you use a service to coordinate a thread.

FYI most of the time you don't want to outright kill a thread (e.g., if it's about to return from a download operation), you want to periodically check a flag.

You probably don't want to use threads in their raw fashion (from activities) for a few reasons, one of which being that with configuration changes they're trickier to get right.  Instead if you need background work that fits the model, an AsyncTask is an appropriate design.

Kris

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:40 AM, ashish <ashis...@gmail.com> wrote:

I read about services in Android very carefully, but I didn't find any valid reasons to use it. E.g.

1. By default services run in the main thread, which most of the applications don't want.

2. A service can run on a seperate thread if it spawns it own thread. But if a service runs on a seprate thread, then the method stopService(new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MyService.class)); does not stop the running service. Again this is a problem.

If we want to do some background operations, then I think threads are better than services. Am I right?

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