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Android startService Synchronous?

I can't find this anywhere in the documentation:

Is a call to context.startService() synchronous or asynchronous?

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yydl Avatar asked Feb 22 '11 23:02

yydl


1 Answers

Asynchronous. It will not even begin doing any work until after you return from whatever callback you are in (e.g., onCreate(), onListItemClick()).

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CommonsWare Avatar answered Sep 18 '22 20:09

CommonsWare



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