You're looking for a service. Unless you have a good reason not to do so, you should put it in the same process.
JBQ On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:50 AM, brs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the simplest, correct way to implement an application with > background semantics similar to the media player? To the user it > should appear as an activity which can be kept running in the > background and "iconized" to the notification bar whenever the > activity is not on top of the stack or until stopped explicitly. > > I guess some of the choices would be: > > a) An activity which ignores onPause/onStop and just keeps doing > whatever it is doing (simple, but I suspect not the recommended > way...) > b) Activity + in-process service > c) Activity + service with its own process > > Assuming the solution involves a service, what are the choices for > sharing a fair amount of state between the activity and its service? > Can they just access shared objects (how to set that up) or does it > require an AIDL RPC interface storing everything in a database > instead? > > Bernhard > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
