I have lots of issues with my egg timer application. I started by just writing the application all in an action. That of course didn't work because once the user left the application, it would get garbage collected after a while and longer timers would fail.
So, I tried a Service. My main Activity handles all the UI stuff and binds to a Service. The user enters in the amount of time they want the egg timer to fun for, and that time gets handed off to the service. The Service has a timer that deducts time every second until it reaches zero, then plays a sound. Only, somehow it randomly never gets there. Sometimes it'll work for a three hour countdown, other times it'll stop working after only 30 minutes. I've put Log.d() all over the place where things get stopped or destroyed but they never show up. Does a timer get stopped and garbage collected independed of an Activity or Service? Is there a simple example of a persistent countdown timer out there? Thanks, Brenton -- 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
