Is it bad to run a thread for longer period (+30mins) in Android?

Question

I'm running a thread from a service where i'm listening for changers in the acceleronometer every 3 seconds. So i run the listener in a while loop with Thread.sleep(3000). But it tends to work with shorter duration. But in longer run it seems to get crash the whole application.

Any suggestions?

Thread.sleep(3000) is not a good option user timer task or other available option............ — Dheeresh Singh, Jun 19 '12 at 09:28
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8113701/long-running-android-service — Vrashabh Irde, Jun 19 '12 at 09:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '12 at 09:24

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You should look into using an IntentService instead, It is the same thing as a service except that it will run off of the main UI thread. Otherwise there should not be a problem that i know of. Services are suposed to be long running.

answered Jun 19 '12 at 09:24

Emil Sjölander

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '12 at 09:27

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you should use alarm for the time tracking and brodcast reciever.

answered Jun 19 '12 at 09:27

Ravi Bhojani

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '12 at 12:01

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I used AsyncTask, and problem of crashing threads fixed.

answered Aug 01 '12 at 12:01

dinesh707

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Is it bad to run a thread for longer period (+30mins) in Android?

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