A string is useful to be able to look at the process information in the debugger, and the most common use for this is to have multiple .apks share a process to run in (not run parts of a single .apk in multiple processes), so a string provides the ability to do scoping and generally not go insane.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:05 PM, elDoudou <the.edouard.merc...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thank you "Indicator Veritatis" for your clear answer. > > For you, what I intend to do is impossible. I cannot figure out why > the Android team declared an "android:process" attribute, and do not > expose that value at runtime to the application, because this > information is only an instruction on whether a dedicated Linux > process should be allocated for a specific component type (Activity, > Service, BroadcastReceiver, ContentProvider ...): the fact that this > actually names the Linux process this way is an implementation detail > and a coincidence. If the process should be anonymous containers and > that it is not supposed to be available from the API at runtime, why > not having design an "android:process" value with an ordinal? I now > know that I need to review the Android source code for better > understanding that "android:process" thing. > > BTW: my application has about 100 activities (I did not say > "hundreds" ;), because this is a very large application, and I already > put into common many activities. For information, I'm not totally a > rookie: I have already been developing about 40 Android applications > (see http://code.google.com/p/droid4me for some of them), and I have > been developing now for 25 years (which, of course, does not involve > that I'm a good developer ;). > > Regards, > Édouard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
