On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Peter Teoh <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am curious what API or method Android used to kill a specific thread in
> a process too.....but your link above did not say anything on that?
> Please enlighten me :-).


I'm not sure what you're asking. The OP didn't ask anything about killing a
specific thread. He question was about killing a Service without killing
the entire hosting process.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Peter Teoh <[email protected]> wrote:

> a service is a thread in a process,


What? No it's not. Where'd you get that?

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html#WhatIsAService
Second bullet point: "A Service is *not* a thread"


> and start/stopping services basically is kill and starting the thread
> itself.


What? No it doesn't. Where'd you get that?


>   and I supposed normally processes will have maximum of one services
> right?   (other threads are non-services related)   not sure.


What? No it won't. Where'd you get that?

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