On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Sundog <sunns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I see her point, it isn't scalable. What do you do when two apps both > want this, and you want both apps? > > No, I agree, this needs addressing but not this way. >
Michael, it's not about what *apps* want. It's what the *user* wants. I am the user, and I want to launch an application, so I run it and It's on top. If it wants the "run alone" privilege, and I'm OK with it (or want it to be this way) what's the problem? I forgot whether it was JBQ who first mentioned that the very problem originates from the fact that a process might get paused to perform a GC, should the system want it to. I don't insist on a special permission to run alone. I'm OK with a solution, which allows an app to not participate in global GC, either via an API call, or via a setting in the manifest file. I guess an API would be even better, so a process can decided to not participate in global GC only when it wants to, e.g. when the original poster of this thread launches an activity, requiring smooth scrolling, or playing a video. I can also imagine, that this is not a very hard thing to implement. Cheers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
