Sorry, my fault. I was reading PendingIntent.send(). It was what I meant. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/e5431d6a90b91646/a0892f62e2b42495#a0892f62e2b42495 is my concern.
Dalvik process is a zygoted JVM instance within a Linux process. It's my understanding. Feel free to correct me please. Kenny On Mar 17, 1:00 am, BoD <bodl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
