Mark, et al,
Thanks for all the replies. My use of the singleton pattern was correct
as was confirmed by these posts. I did find my issues - one of which
_was_ due to not handling lifecyle correctly - and now all is well.
...Jake
>>>>> "MM" == Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> writes:
MM> Note that this will only work single-threaded. Add the
MM> synchronized keyword to the method and make the static data
MM> member volatile to make it safe for multi-threaded access.
MM> (a problem I ran into with WakefulIntentService, which is why
MM> this issue is fresh in my mind...)
MM> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Streets Of Boston
MM> <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The code below will work fine for a singleton:
>> ...
>> private static MyObject myObject = null;
>> public static MyObject getMyObject() {
>> if (myObject == null {
>> myObject = new MyObject();
>> }
>> return myObject;
>> }
>>
>> Note that variable won't be 'reset' to null. There is nothing to reset
when
>> your process is killed. It is gone, nohting left.
>>
>> When a new process is started, i.e. the process that will run your app
>> again, then the static fields are all properly initialized (in this case,
>> 'myObject' to the value 'null').
>>
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