title: Application threads vs Service threads
body: <p>What are the advantages/disadvantages in placing a lengthy network access code in a thread in an activity or a thread in a service?  How would it affect the application?  I am writing a streaming audio player and from what I've read so far putting the code in a service will still end up blocking the application so a new thread is needed, does anyone know if it makes more sense to put this piece of code in a service.</p>