On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:08 AM, William Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > In particular, how should you keep a service alive that needs to > listen and respond to phone state events?
Don't use a service. Use a manifest-registered BroadcastReceiver watching for ACTION_PHONE_STATE_CHANGED: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/TelephonyManager.html#ACTION_PHONE_STATE_CHANGED > And on phone state events, why is it that responding to an inbound > phone call requires a phone state listener, but an outbound phone call > can be responded to via a broadcast receiver. According to the documentation, ACTION_PHONE_STATE_CHANGED works for incoming calls: "If the new state is RINGING, a second extra EXTRA_INCOMING_NUMBER provides the incoming phone number as a String." -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 2.2 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- 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
