On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Jake Colman <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I know why my listener is not always firing but I'm not sure > what to do about it. The request for location updates is coming from a > Service that is periodically updating a widget. Looking the logcat, it > looks like the service gets destroyed before I received the update. If > the service is destroyed, the listener object is gone too! > > How does one typically deal with this situation?
The only reason a service would be destroyed within that short a period of time is if somebody stops it. For example, an IntentService calls stopSelf() when onHandleIntent() ends (if there is no more work queued up). Handling periodic locations, triggered by alarms, is tricky, not only in the location handling but in making sure the WakeLock and everything is behaving as expected. I tossed together a simple LocationPoller to demonstrate the sort of stuff that's required: https://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-locpoll -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 4.4 Available! -- 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
