[android-developers] Re: Why does Android 2.1 kill my service?

2010-05-18 Thread mort
Music players were the most common example for remote services even on Google's SDK site. Got a link for that handy? Sorry, can't find it right now... Maybe I just misunderstood something? How is it possible to enable playing while the app's in background without a remote service?

[android-developers] Re: Why does Android 2.1 kill my service?

2010-05-18 Thread mort
Strange... Maybe the exported attribute makes the difference? Update: Seems like it does. At least in the emulator and on my device. -- 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] Re: Why does Android 2.1 kill my service?

2010-05-17 Thread mort
So I did: - add android:process=:remote in the manifest You should not need that, and it may well be the source of your difficulty. Sorry for the late reply, didn't notice it at first... If I remove android:process=:remote and leave the app, music will stop eiter immediately or after the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Why does Android 2.1 kill my service?

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Murphy
mort wrote: Music players were the most common example for remote services even on Google's SDK site. Got a link for that handy? How is it possible to enable playing while the app's in background without a remote service? Simple: don't use a remote service. For example, the Music app that

[android-developers] Re: Why does Android 2.1 kill my service?

2010-05-14 Thread mort
Sorry, I've got the reason... I had a timing problem with the HEADSET_PLUG Intent, which is sent when registered, and in my case caused a stopSelf() because the service thought it wasn't required (bad value in internal status flag). The strange behaviour then happened, because the service right