Hi Frank, Robi, and Chris!
My name is Kevin Sprague, I've been learning Android for about a month now and have a question about Android Services. I've written an application comprised of an Activity and a Service. The job of the Activity is to display updates in near real-time based on data retrieved over the Internet by the Service. The problem I'm running into is that every once in a while it would appear that the Service is being terminated by Android and so there is a delay in receiving and displaying those updates in the UI. I know that active Activities take the highest priority but in this application, the UI is not of much use if the Service isn't providing the data updates. I've thought about scrapping the Service altogether and writing the network call on a background
thread in the Activity itself but that leaves me questioning the intended usage
pattern for Services. Thanks in advance for your reply!
Kevin