[android-developers] Re: Which is more suitable for uploading large files? a service on separate process or ...

I would definitely dedicate a service for things that do persistent work in the background.  There is no real advantage to using a separate process unless your upload needs a truckload of memory.

Doug

On Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:21:47 AM UTC-7, AndroidCompile wrote:

Hi,

When an application needs to upload many large files, which would be a better solution:

1) Doing this on a separate process (i.e. remote service)?

2) Using a separate thread (or AsyncTask)?

Is there a clear and definite answer to this?

The application, by the way, is uploading things all the time - usually very small chunks of data. 

Every now and then it needs to send large files, so I want to do that with a separate mechanism then the one I am using.

(BTW for the small chunks I am using a single task thread which works great)

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