How to create an Android Activity and Service that use separate processes

Question

I have an Android app that consists of an activity and a service. Currently they both exist in the same process and use the same heap but I want have to separate process/hea

Answer 1

IPC for services is IMHO only required if the service should be consumed by other applications.

Running a service in its own process has the small advantages that the garbage collector for the service does not affect your application and that the memory footprint of the service is a bit smaller if it runs alone.

If consumption of the service by other applications is not a requirement for you, prefer a local service. Alternatively you can still run the service in its own process and use different communication with your application, e.g. via a broadcast receiver. I tried to describe the different approaches in my Android service tutorial under the following link: Activity and service communication.