Android Service makes Activity not responding

Question

anybody knows what can be the reason for when i start a service from an Activity, the emulator shows a message \"the activity is not responding?\"

Inside my Service i st

Answer 1

anybody knows what can be the reason for when i start a service from an Activity, the emulator shows a message "the activity is not responding?"

Because something in your application -- the activity, the service, etc. -- is tying up the main application thread.

Inside my Service i start 2 threads in order to make some tasks. can be this the cause of the problem?

Not directly, no, though you really should consider using AsyncTask rather than forking your own threads

Doing long-running work on the main application thread, or tying it up with a sleep() or busy-loop, will cause this exception.