Actually, Mark, my users love this feature. I raise a notification as well, which is automatically cleared when certain "dismissive" actions are taken by the user. I think giving the user the option to turn off showing the activity (and limiting it to the notification only) is something I might do.
Thanks Ravi, for your answers. On Dec 26 2008, 8:22 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > Jay-andro wrote: > > I have a service that runs in the background periodically and checks a > > database for some data. If it finds whats it's looking for, it shows > > an Activity to the user to alert him/her of this condition. > > Please please please please please don't do that. > > Raise a Notification instead, so the user can control when the activity > appears. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 1.9 Available! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
