Breakpoints within a service.

[barx]

Hi,
Ihave recently started playing with service modules and need to debug a little problem I have. So, I poppped the ide into debug mode set some breakpoints and compiled. It stops at first breakpoint for several seconds and then just whizzes on by the rest. Done a search on here and according to

this page

this is expected behaviour within a service. Is this dur to how android uses services. Is there anything that can be done to help debugging as the actual debug tool doesn't help here.

Not a complaint by the way, more a plea for hints & tips

 

[Erel]

Service_Create and Service_Start must complete in 20 seconds or Android kills the application. Therefore the debugger continues automatically after several seconds in these subs.

 

[barx]

I see, thought it would be something like that. so what would be a workaround? maybe adding lots of 'logging' to show what's going off. The brief pause doesn't give enough time to see what's happening.

Cheers Erel

 

[Erel]

Yes. You should use Log instead.

 

[barx]

Cheers, took a little longer but got sorted with the logging...