TreKing.  You gressed it.  Broadcast receiver.  It's an activity that runs 
for about 600 - 700 mills.  
On Saturday, March 2, 2013 11:05:23 AM UTC-7, TreKing wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:36 AM, ga...@deanblakely.com <javascript:> <
> ga...@deanblakely.com <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> Well, the app reliably works while other activities are running and when 
>> the phone is locked.
>
>
> This may be the case in your testing, but this is not guaranteed. Your app 
> can and will be killed at any point while it's in the background to make 
> room for other components as the system requires. You will find this out 
> quite quickly once you release the app users who manage to get into these 
> type of edge-cases.
>
> It sounds like you should be using a Service.
>  
>
>> You send the phone a text and you get back the phones location.  It 
>> doesn't have to be running.  In fact it never has to run.  It just has to 
>> be installed on the phone.
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>
> Obviously it does have to run at some point to do anything. Maybe it runs 
> in response to a Broadcast instead of user interaction but it doesn't just 
> magically work without actually running some code.
>
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> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices
>  

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