applicaion and local service lifetime

Question

As i understoond, if we have local service of some application, as soon as the application goes down, the service goes down as well - is that true?

and if it is, how can we make an application to run all the time without go down? (without using Alarm manager). i though that the purpose of local service is to answer this situation: " to make the application everlasting"

please, if some1 could explain me this better, thanks,

ray.

Answer 1

That is incorrect. BackgroundServices(like Google Maps Navigation/Music Player) are intended to never be killed by the system.

Answer 2

how can we make an application to run all the time without go down?

You can't.

i though that the purpose of local service is to answer this situation: " to make the application everlasting"

Absolutely not. Services can run for a while, but they can be:

• Closed by the user via the Running Services screen in Settings
• Closed by the user via a task killer
• Closed by Android to free up memory in times of need