Question

In my application there’s an AsyncTask which runs in the background for much time. The problem is that in low memory situations it’s killed by the VM, is there a way to make the application’s priority higher, so that it would be harder to kill? Should I use a service instead? My only target is to make it difficult to kill, any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

I would advice you to make it a service and use startForeground() which will make it a little more resistant. But even then it might get stopped on low memory.