> Frankly, I don't know why the Genie... service sticks around for the > stock News and Weather. It does not appear to be affecting the > thoroughly irritating and non-configurable > change-the-headline-every-five-seconds feature, as that persists even > when I shut down the service via the Settings application.
Neither do I, but it seems "everyone" is taking this approach. I really really miss guidelines on Android development. Both GUI design guidelines (toolbars at the bottom anyone?) and design guidelines for widgets doing more advanced things than updating a clock. It must be 100 different toolbars out there at the moment in various sizes. Why can't we have a proper toolbar in Android? Sorry, off-topic :-) > > So is this really the best solution to have a service running in the > > background? > > Probably not. I would love to see some better suggestions :-) > If you are using a WakeLock, double-check to confirm you are releasing > it properly. No wake-locks. Only using the following code to make the widget change headline: ... am.set(AlarmManager.RTC, System.currentTimeMillis() + 5000, pendingIntent); ... According to the documentation this should work just brilliant. But my phone is dead every morning with my widget running. Uninstalled! > ... to see who is messing up. Well, people will blame my widget even if I try to tell them that they have another application that has wake_locks so I must make my widget behave nicely with the rest of the apps out there. Well I have made a new service that runs all the time and receives broadcast events for screen off and on and that works great, so maybe I'll stick with this. When I have started 10 of my favourite apps I have a lot of services running so I guess people are used to this. Seems like services is a bit overused these days so no wonder everyone complains about battery life with Android... -Christer -- 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
