Services

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Joshua Rogers edited this page Jan 2, 2014 · 1 revision

used to act as a background process after application has closed
two ways to start (can technically use both)
- started using startService
- bound using bindService
IMPORTANT: a service still runs on a main thread. Long computations (such as network activity) must be put on a background thread
a good way to communicate is through messengers