Android ASyncTask and service

Question

How I can start my service in ASyncTask for example

MyTask task = new MyTask();
startService(new Intent(MainActivity.this, MyService.class),    task);

What is correct way to do this?

I want to tell service in which threads are executed

That makes no sense... Why would you pass a task to `startService`? What do you want to do? — m0skit0, Jan 23 '13 at 16:26
See this post , its having similar question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11168172/unable-to-start-service-from-asynctask — GrIsHu, Jan 23 '13 at 16:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '13 at 18:56

Quote from Android dev. :

AsyncTask enables proper and easy use of the UI thread. This class allows to perform background operations and publish results on the UI thread without having to manipulate threads and/or handlers.

I guess if you're not using directly startService, is that you want start it in a new thread, no ? If so, you should do a new thread :

Thread t = new Thread(){
public void run(){
getApplicationContext().bindService(
        new Intent(getApplicationContext(), YOURSERVICE.class),
        serviceConnection,
        Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE
    );
}
};
t.start();

Android ASyncTask and service

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