On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:41 PM, A Curious Developer <[email protected]> wrote: > The Dev Guide states this: "For example, if it has a thread running in > the background to download data from the network, it may create that > thread in onCreate() and then stop the thread in onDestroy()", but > what if onDestroy() never gets called? It seems like the thread would > live on after the application is destroyed.
If onDestroy() is not called, the process is being terminated, which flushes all the process' threads along with it. > My thinking right now is that I have to terminate the threads during > onPause() and recreate them if the activity resumes. That may be good for other reasons, such as not consuming CPU time while your app is not in use. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- 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
