Question

I have a non-sticky service that’s called on a regular basis via a broadcastreceiver to start a thread that’ll perform some tasks. While the thread is running an ongoing notification shows some progress information, and a button to bring up a status page.

This status page shows a lists of items curerntly being processed, this list is a static ArrayList used by both the thread and this activity. When the status Activity is started I have a null check:

if(Global.statusItems == null)
{
    Global.statusItems = new ArrayList<StatusPageItem>();
}

The thread is still running, and has perfectly fine access to the ArrayList, but as soon as the Status Activity is brought up it’ll recreate the ArrayList as if it were null.

So far I haven’t been able solve the issue without saving the list using an ObjectOutputStream and reloading when the status page is started. Is there a more elegant solution I could use?

Regards,
Quint.

Answer 1

Is it possible that your service is running on a different process?