Are Android's BroadcastReceivers started in a new thread?

Question

If I have an inner class that extends BroadcastReceiver within my Service class, should I care about synchronization, when the BroadcastRecei

Answer 1

Also, you can specify the "android:process" receiver element attribute in the AndroidManifest.xml. See here. That way you can specify that the receiver runs as a separate process and isn't tied to the main UI thread.