Android service onCreate is called multiple times without calling onDestroy

Question

In my app, I use a service to communicate with our server. The Service spawns several message queue threads to deal with tasks with different priorities.

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Answer 1

I had the same problem when my service used the same process with activities(default). but no more problems when I made my service use another process. I edited my AndroidManifest.xml like below... (added android:process attribute)

see http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/service-element.html for information.