Sure there are good reasons to know the device is shutting down. But server side applications should be designed to assume that clients will disappear without notice - because networks are unreliable. This is true in general for client-server applications, even more true for internet applications, and doubly true for mobile devices.
On Dec 4, 1:09 pm, Steve Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this is possibly more about graceful client disconnect, gone away > type scenarios should be handled by other methods. > > On 4 Dec 2009 20:16, "jotobjects" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or drops it in the swimming pool. Or the Server crashes. We could go > on... > > On Dec 4, 12:07 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Or just > pull out the battery! T... > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:48 AM, jotobjects <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ultimately it is not... > > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > <android-developers%[email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en... > > > [email protected] > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private suppo... -- 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

