Android Question Backgroundworker in separate process

beachner said:

Never mind, found the answer. You of course use SetServiceAttribute in the manifest editor

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beachner said:

I need to run the background service in a separate process

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OliverA said:

Could you elaborate more on your solution? Services do not run on a separate thread/process, nor does SetServiceAttribute give the service such capabilities. So did you create a separate thread/process for your service or did the correct setting of the SetServiceAttribute do the trick (and if so, what was your setting)? Any information you give here would help future searchers look at an actual solution instead of just a "I did it" without any other context.

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If we want to make this service run in a remote process (instead of the standard one for its .apk), we can use android: process (remove the space) in its manifest tag to specify one

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<service android:name=".app.MessengerService"
androidrocess=":remote" />

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SetServiceAttribute(backgroundworker,android:process,:background)

beachner said:

Never mind, found the answer. You of course use SetServiceAttribute in the manifest editor

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beachner said:

manifest but the service doesn't appears to start with this attribute o

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SetServiceAttribute(backgroundworker,android:process,":background")

OliverA said:

Could it be that you need to quote the 3rd entry?

B4X:

SetServiceAttribute(backgroundworker,android:process,":background")

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OliverA said:

There may be a caveat with this if you do get it to work. According to a stockoverflow.com answer, this will cause another Application instance to be started. I wonder how this will work with a B4A application. Would it fire up the Starter service again? A B4XPages application, how will it handle such a start?

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