On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:30 PM, AndroidDevTime <[email protected]> wrote: > what are the power battery performance implications of maintaining a > service? Will this drain the battery more to keep a service up and > running? Especially if you bind to the service from the widget to > call service functions?
It takes up RAM more than battery, though it depends a bit on what the service does. The task killer category of apps were largely invented to help deal with developers who try to have everlasting services. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in Atlanta: http://bignerdranch.com/classes/android -- 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
