Damn ok seems i'll need to bite the bullet and rearchitect. Thanks for your help both of you.
On Oct 29, 4:46 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry it's "you can't do that". If the receiver is in the manifest, it is a > top-level component not associated with any of your other components. > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Loki117 <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > Agreed going forward this is a better plan and something which I am > > moving towards but with my current inherited code base this is not a > > possible so "don't do that" isn't really an option for the moment. > > > On Oct 29, 4:15 pm, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Because the service implements an interface to which I require access > > > > to by casting the context to it's type. > > > > Then don't do that. > > > > One solid pattern for AlarmManager is to have alarms trigger a > > > manifest-registered broadcast receiver, that in turn calls startService() > > > on an IntentService that processes whatever work needs to be done > > > periodically. This allows the work to be done on a background thread and > > > shuts the IntentService down when there is no more work, minimizing > > memory > > > impact. > > > > Conversely, I really do not recommend trying to use AlarmManager with a > > > receiver registered in Java code, because that receiver hopefully is > > > rarely around, because the service that hosts it hopefully is rarely > > > around. > > > > -- > > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
