On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:14 PM, vineet <[email protected]> wrote: > what i wanted is if not possible service to stop when activity ends > (or back button is pressed) the service should continue in > background..
Your Activity can call startService() on the Service. If you do not call stopService(), the Service will keep running. It will not keep running indefinitely, though. You can use startForeground() in your Service to try to keep running longer, though this is designed for things the user started and directly cares about (e.g., a music player) and has some requirements (e.g., a Notification). However, you absolutely positively do not want to design an application that assumes a Service will run forever. If your goal is to do something on a periodic basis -- what you might use a Windows "Scheduled Task" for -- look at AlarmManager. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- 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
