Android: multiple intentservices or one intentservice with multiple intents? : <p>I'm a little confused about intentService. The docs say that if you send an intentService multiple tasks (intents) then it will execute them one after the other on one separate thread. My question is - is it possible to have multiple intentService threads at the same time or not? How do you differentiate in the code between creating three different intents on the same intentService (the same thread), or three separate intentServices each with it's own thread and one intent each to execute?</p>

<p>In other words, when you perform the command startService(intent) are you putting the intent in a single queue or does it start a new queue every time?</p>

<pre><code>Intent someIntent1 = new Intent(this, myIntentService.class);
Intent someIntent2 = new Intent(this, myIntentService.class);
Intent someIntent3 = new Intent(this, myIntentService.class);
startService(someIntent1);
startService(someIntent2);
startService(someIntent3);
</code></pre>
