And while we are dreaming, I want a display of an annotated dependency tree of services and applications, so that I the user can tell which service is needed/used by which application. And I want the annotations to take me to the application's website for a fuller explanation of how and why it uses the service;)
And I want the annotations to explain why Market and My Uploads keep getting started when I didn't ask for them! On Aug 11, 9:12 am, Alessandro Pellizzari <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:04:19 -0400, Mark Murphy wrote: > > I agree that it'd be nice for a user to be able to "bless" a service, > > such that it wouldn't need startForeground(), or perhaps so its icon > > just wouldn't show up even if startForeground() is called. However, I > > can't fault the current implementation's objectives. > > I think a good addition to the next Android version could be a "gallery- > style" (horizontally scrollable) list of running services in the > notification area. > > This way, no matter how many services you have running, they take exactly > 1 row in the notification window, leaving space for "real" notifications. > > The problem with "blessing" (and a disappearing icon) is that in a couple > of weeks I will forget I blessed that service, and in 1 year time, I > could > end up having dozens of services in bg... :) > > Bye. -- 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
