Yes sorry, bad wording, not an activity as such. My AlarmReceiver has one method, onReceive(), which starts an ASyncTask - that in turn does a server call, then schedules the next alarm.
On Feb 24, 8:50 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, that's a receiver. > > I am guessing that your receiver uses startActivity. If you do that, > beware of sleep/wake states, it's documented here: > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html > > Android guarantees that for Wakeup-type alarms delivered to a broadcast > receiver, it will keep the device from falling back to sleep only for > the duration of the receiver's onReceive. > > If that's too short, and your code needs to do more, especially an > asynchronous operation (such as starting an Activity or a Service), then > it's up to your code to acquire a WakeLock to keep the device awake as > long as needed for that. > > There is an example at the top of this page: > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.html > > Basically, the structure should be - > > onReceive() > Call startService or startActivity > Acquire a WakeLock > [return] > --- lock is held, device is still awake --- > Android processes "startActivity" call > Your activity is created and started > onResume releases the wake lock so it's not held forever > > Somewhere in there should be some kind of error handling, so that if > something goes wrong, the device is not held awake indefinitely (or > rather, until the battery runs out - which won't be long). > > -- Kostya > > 24.02.2011 23:27, Neilz пишет: > > > > > Like this: > > > public class AlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver { > > > On Feb 23, 10:11 pm, Kostya Vasilyev<[email protected]> wrote: > >> 24.02.2011 1:06,Neilzпишет: > > >>> I'm using an Activity that > >>> extends a BroadcastReceiver... > >> An Activity that extends a Broadcast receiver? Sorry, I'm not sure I > >> understand what this means. > > >> Do you mean something else - like a BroadcastReceiver subclass that > >> starts an Activity subclass? > > >> -- > >> Kostya Vasilyev --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com > > -- > Kostya Vasilyev --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com -- 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
