Well, to be honest I didn't read this on your book, but in _the other one_ :-) In any case, it looks like it's a commonly suggested practice.
Thanks anyway, Federico On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:40 AM, davemac <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw Dianne's post on Oct 31 regarding this topic. I'm also a co- > author of an Android book that advocated the approach of extending the > Application class. We're currently busy updating in preparation for > Pro Android 3, and I can assure you I've already replaced that section > with one explaining how to create and use singletons instead. Sorry > for the confusion in the book. > > - dave > www.androidbook.com > > On Nov 1, 6:09 pm, Federico Paolinelli <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ok I'll go that way. Thanks a lot. >> >> Federico >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Yes the application object is always created before any other of your >> > components in the process. >> > There is no need to use the application class to implement singletons (that >> > part of the docs is totally wrong, I just put in a change to get rid of >> > it). >> > I suggest avoiding that entirely and just write a singleton without it. >> >> > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Federico Paolinelli <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> In a book I read, the author suggests to extend the application class >> >> in order to have a place to be used as a singleton. In this way, it is >> >> easy to make some initialization stuff in it onCreate(). >> >> >> Now my question: if my application has also some broadcast receivers >> >> declared in the manifest, and the application was not started >> >> explicitly, or it was but then the os reclaimed it resources back, >> >> what will be happening if the broadcast receiver is triggered? Will >> >> the onCreate of the application class be called first? >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> >> Federico >> >> >> -- >> >> 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 >> >> > -- >> > Dianne Hackborn >> > Android framework engineer >> > [email protected] >> >> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to >> > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such >> > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and >> > answer them. >> >> > -- >> > 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 >> >> -- >> -------- >> Federico > > -- > 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 -- -------- Federico -- 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
