Yeah that is the correct way to do this.-

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Jon Colverson <jjc1...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I don't think it's valid to start a Thread in a BroadcastReceiver. The
> system doesn't know anything about that thread, so it wouldn't know
> that it's supposed to keep the process hosting it around. My app
> nanoTweeter does similar background polling and I acquire the WakeLock
> in the BroadcastReceiver and then start a Service. That service
> releases the lock when it's done.
>
> --
> Jon
>
> >
>


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