Dianne, here's the reproduction step on Froyo: [1] Run on Froyo - start ApiDemos, start the RemoveService sample. You will now see two processes com.example.android.apis com.example.android.apis:remote
[2] You will notice that "Sample Remote Service" appears on status bar. [3] write an app with KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES permission. Call ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses("com.example.android.apis"); [4] Both processes created at step [1] are killed. [5] RemoveService is never restarted, even though you see something like W/ActivityManager( 2426): Scheduling restart of crashed service com.example.android.apis/.app.RemoteService in 20000ms [6] "Sample Remote Service" message still stays on status bar. This is because StatusBarService expects a ACTION_PACKAGE_RESTARTED broadcast, but this braodcast is never delivered. What's the best way to handle this -- we need to clean up some resources if the app process is killed. Thanks! On Jul 29, 8:15 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > Applications can't kill services with this. They can only kill background > processes, which the OOM killer is free to kill at any time anyway. > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:37 PM, tomei.ninge...@gmail.com < > > > > > > > > tomei.ninge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Froyo, we found that some new "Task Manager" apps are now using the > > ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses() to kill apps. When this > > happens, Intent.ACTION_PACKAGE_RESTARTED is no longer fired. > > > How can I find out that my application has been killed? > > > I tried to start a service, and I do see this message printed in > > logcat: > > > W/ActivityManager( 2426): Scheduling restart of crashed service > > com.example.android.apis/.app.RemoteService in 20000ms > > > However, the service is never restarted as advertised, if the app is > > killed using the killBackgroundProcesses API. > > > (If I go into adb shell and kill the service process, the service will > > indeed be restarted ...) > > > This looks like a bug anyway, because the notification created by the > > app is no longer removed like in eclair (the StatusBarService, and a > > bunch of other system services, depend on the > > Intent.ACTION_PACKAGE_RESTARTED broadcast). > > > Thanks > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en