On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Pent <[email protected]> wrote:

> One of the other things it does is make the user unhappy and write to
> you
> because they have a permanent notification in their status bar.
>

So you are saying the user doesn't want to know who is playing sounds in the
background and have a clear way to get to the app to stop it?  Or what is
the situation you are using this for where it is an annoyance?


> I really don't think that that change was an improvement, especially
> since
> the service/battery stats arenow easily available via the Settings
> app.
>

Apps had started to seriously abuse this facility to get themselves stuck
consuming memory with no way for a normal user to know what is going on.  It
was necessary.

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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
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questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
answer them.

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