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I want to know if starting up a asynctask from a broadcast receiver considered a bad practice? I basically registered with the C2DM server of google and then when I intercept the onregistered, broadcast receiver, I want to send it to my server.
what is the best way of accomplishing this?
Yes, this is considered bad practice. That’s because if you start
AsyncTaskfromBroadcastReceiverAndroid may kill your process ifonReceive()returned and there is no other active components running.The correct way would be to start
ServicefromBroadcastReceiver. And thisServiceshould manageAsyncTask. This way Android will be aware about the active component and Android will not kill it prematurely (unless other critical conditions arise, like not enough memory conditions).