only one

# android

[pankaj]

only one

[Markchous]

not to discredit you, but how do you know?

[louiscad]

@Markchous Can you launch multiple instances of your application, of a Service and more? No. Neither can the Google Play Services, and that's the point of having it, to share resources, saving RAM

[Markchous]

@louiscad That’s a good point. My gut feeling is that it’s a single instance, but they could easily spawn multiple processes if that’s the case

[Markchous]

Although, my statement above is a long stretch and is highly unlikely.

[louiscad]

In Android, apps are single process only by default, an the only way to have multiple process is to specify a process in the AndroidManifest.xml file for a component like a service or an activity. That means all the possible processes that can run (if any non default is declared) are known at install time.