Donal, I'm mildly surprised Mark Murphy hasn't chimed in on this himself, but here's a current post from his blog which looks relevant:
http://commonsware.com/blog/2010/09/10/asynctask-screen-rotation.html HTH, String On Sep 13, 1:05 pm, Donal Rafferty <[email protected]> wrote: > I have managed to implement the Task in my Service now but the original > problem still remains. > > I dont cancel the Task at all in my service, I simply play the ringtone in > the postExecute method of the Asynctask if a flag is true, if its not I > dont. > > But I get the same issue, after a couple of runs the AsyncTask simply stops > getting to the doInBackground method, only the postExecute method is run. > > Its very strange and really annoying me now. > > Is there any reason why an AsyncTask would behave like this without cancel > being used? > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Donal Rafferty <[email protected]> wrote: > > Monday morning coding! :) > > > I return my aidl definition in my service's onBind: > > > @Override > > public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) { > > Log.d("XXX", "Status: onBind Called"); > > return myServiceStub; > > } > > > IBinder myServiceStub = new IMyService.Stub(){ > > > //aidl methods > > > }; > > > And use this to call methods from my Activity, so I would need to be able > > to import android.media.Ringtone in my aidl definition but I cant. > > > So I'm still stuck with it not working :( > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Donal, > > >> No, a service is a service, and a binder is a binder. > > >> The binder you get in the callback is the binder returned by the service's > >> onBind. > > >> This example: > > >>http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/examp... > > >> has a binder implementation that returns a reference to its service, so > >> you can do this > > >> public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName className, > >> IBinder binder) { > > >> LocalService.LocalBinder binder = (LocalService.LocalBinder) binder; > >> *LocalService service = binder.getService();* > >> } > > >> This example has one flaw: it leaks a service reference (since LocalBinder > >> is a non-static inner class of LocalService). Using a static inner or a > >> top-level class for LocalBinder, fixes that (AFAIK). > > >> -- Kostya > > >> 13.09.2010 13:16, Donal Rafferty пишет: > > >> 09-13 10:06:53.566: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(18791): Uncaught handler: thread > >> main exiting due to uncaught exception > >> 09-13 10:06:53.676: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(18791): > >> java.lang.ClassCastException: com.xxx.phone.MyService$1 > >> 09-13 10:06:53.676: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(18791): at > >> com.xxx.phone.ui.MyActivity$2.onServiceConnected(MyActivity.java:515) > > >> So it doesn't like the cast from binder to Service? > > >> How can I fix that do you know? What am I missing from the example? > > >> -- > >> Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget > >> --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com > > >> -- > >> 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]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > >> [email protected]> > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
