Thanks again for the clarifications.
Federico
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Federico Paolinelli <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Not using a service will make the connection "available to be killed"
>> if the application goes background.
>> Is that correct?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>>
>> And, if we want to close the connection when the application is no
>> longer visible, where should the connection be closed?
>> The onStop() gets called when the app goes background but also when
>> the activity gets destroyed because the user pressed the back button
>> to get to a previous activity (and in this case we don't want to close
>> the connection).
>
>
> You just want to keep track of the number of active clients to decide when
> you should be running. Have two methods:
>
> class MyConnection {
> private mStartCount;
>
> void start() {
> mStartCount++;
> if (mStartCount == 1) {
> // Bring up connection
> }
> }
>
> void stop() {
> mStartCount--;
> if (mStartCount == 0) {
> // Bring down connection
> }
> }
> }
>
> And call these in each onStart() and onStop() of the activities that are
> using the connection.
>
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