Add my vote for this option/feature: A permission for an app to become the only app running (except maybe the phone-app and incoming SMS, etc).
On Mar 26, 7:26 am, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > I've also proposed a solution to this - adding a permission for apps > to request that they run alone, uninterrupted by other processes. > > That is, the app can request a permission, demanding that the app can > only be interrupted by an external event, such as phone call, all > other services and background processes (other than the ones the OS > can't go without) are paused when app is running. > > I know it's quite tricky to implement this, because, for example, when > an SMS is received it needs to be stored in the database, and this > will require some memory, which will need to be discarded, when the > SMS is written to the database, and this will trigger GC. However, > when such a message is received, and the OS knows that an app with the > special permission runs in the foreground, it could delay the GC > either until: > > - the app itself allocates memory (no matter if it might not be > actually GC'ed until the app finishes) OR > - the systems goes pretty low on memory > > At least, non-stock services (i.e. services, developed by 3rd parties) > can be suspended during the lifetime of an application requesting the > special permission. > > Cheers > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> The trick is simple: avoid any allocation that might trigger a GC. > > > It's not that simple at all. > > In fact, it is *impossible* on Android, or any other mobile OS which > > allows background processes. > > > I've already said this once -- even though your game can be tuned to > > the max, nothing prevents *other* apps from triggering GC. > > That is, in my game, I *never*, *ever* do any allocation after startup. > > However, other background processes do trigger GC, and voila - my game > > stutters for a bit when GC kicks in. > > > Compare to iPhone, which disallows background processing and the > > foreground app is never interrupted. > > > Cheers- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
