Just loved the title of the blog post. A very nice post. On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:
> > Jason wrote: > > The service is picking up GPS locations; and sending to the server. > > Hence it needs to stay awake -- the server is tracking locations of the > > user on the web. > > Keeping the service alive all the time is very bad for the battery. I > provide an analysis of this here: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/36bf61dfb78ef4cc > > In your case, it will be substantially worse, as you are keeping the GPS > radio on all the time. If a G1 lasts 8 hours in that state, I'd be > impressed. > > I also cover the fallacy of keeping services alive all the time in a > recent blog post: > > > http://www.androidguys.com/2009/09/09/diamonds-are-forever-services-are-not/ > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Need Android talent? Ask on HADO! http://wiki.andmob.org/hado > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
