Thanks and Appriciate prompt response! Is there anything similar to start/stopForegroud() in platform 1.6.. I have constarint to move to 2.0.
so far help is greatly appriciated! Thanks, -Amit On Feb 11, 2:32 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote: > Amit, > > - With an alarm, the phone is only guaranteed to be awake for the > duration of your receiver's onReceive callback. Anything past that, you > need a WakeLock. > > - startForegroud has nothing to do with wake/sleep modes, it has to do > with how important your service is to the user (and hence, how Android > treats it). > > - The screen light is different from the CPU being awake. If you don't > need the screen to light up, use a PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK: > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.html > > -- Kostya > > 11.02.2011 12:15, Amit пишет: > > > > > > > Thanks a lot for detailed answer! > > > When alarm manager deliver intent to my app, at this time, phone gets > > wake up and i am thinking to make service call startforeground() and > > start processing in another thread. > > > Will this behaviour causes phone light on? > > > I am just looking to do some background processing(some network I/O) > > and only in some scenario i may post notification which user may > > choose to see by clicking that notification.But it is not really > > required to make phone light On. > > > -Amit > > On Feb 7, 1:42 pm, Kostya Vasilyev<[email protected]> wrote: > >> 07.02.2011 9:53, Amit пишет: > > >>> As Kostya wrote: I should be considering that service may be killed in > >>> extreme condition if OS think. > >> And not only under extreme conditions. Recent versions of Android are > >> more proactive about removing unneeded background services, AFAIK that's > >> where you see "No longer want<service name>" in the log cat. > > >> You can tell the framework that your service is doing something > >> important and should not be killed by calling startForeground (and > >> stopForeground when done). Those are Android 2.0 API methods. > > >> This is exalained here: > > >>http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/02/service-api-changes-st... > > >> Another option is to make it so that your service can handle being > >> killed and resume what it was doing when restarted. > > >> -- Kostya > > >> -- > >> Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget > >> --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com > > -- > Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget > --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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
