If it's for a periodic operation, please consider basing this on Alarm Service, rather than leaving your app running all of the time consuming resources.
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Tim <vkan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am very new beginner, and I am designing a small application as > below. > > - After a user starts the application, he/she can click the start > button to start a background task. (e.g. retrieving the news headlines > periodically, then do something...) > > - Even after the user quits the application, the background task still > running. > > - To stop the background task, the user needs to run the application > again, and clicks the stop button to stop the background task. > > In the above scenario, what API should I use ? (Local Service > Binding ? Remote Service Binding ? Handler ?) > > Please help me. Thank you very much. > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
