They are in the same application. The Service is started by the AlarmManager, so I'm not sure about what you mean by the same 'Dalvik process'. I'm also not sure of what you mean by sent(d?)Intent?
Thanks a lot! BoD On Mar 16, 2:49 pm, Kenny <yxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Besides sendBroadcast( ), how about sentIntent( )? Are your service > and receiver in the same Dalvik JVM process? > > Kenny > > On Mar 16, 6:16 pm, BoD <bodl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Replying myself, for future reference. > > For theschedulingpart I used AlarmManager and a Service as mentioned > > before. > > For the "notification back" part I ended up using sendBroadcast from > > the service and a BroadcastReceiver on my Activity (registering/ > > unregistering it in onResume/onPause). It works fine. > > > BoD > > > On Mar 15, 7:22 pm, BoD <bodl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to find the "correct" way to do the following: > > > > . I have an activity with a button that starts arepeatingtaskin the > > > background. That is, if the user goes away from my activity, I want my > > >taskto still be scheduled and executed every x minutes. > > > > . I want a status TextView to be displayed on the activity, and if the > > >taskhappens to start executing while my activity is showing, the > > > TextView should be updated so the user can be aware of what's going > > > on. > > > > So basically, is there a way to start a scheduled backgroundrepeating > > >taskand be notified when it is executed? > > > > From what I saw in the sample applications, I understand I'm supposed > > > to use AlarmManager and a Service but I'm not sure about the > > > notification part. > > > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > > > BoD- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
