Sorry, there is no support for this, besides ensuring you are always running with a service... and you should really really avoid that. We deliberately don't allow apps to be launched from content changes due to significant concerns about how this can impact performance if a number of apps end up getting launched each time there is a change in some content provider.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:14 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > Quick question: I am trying to make a permanent contentObserver that > observes content://sms. The way I do it atm is have an initial > configure Activity with my application that calls the following code: > > ContentResolver contentResolver = getContentResolver(); > SMSHandler handler = new SMSHandler(); > SMSObserver resolver = new SMSObserver(handler); > resolver.setApplication(this.getApplication()); > > contentResolver.registerContentObserver(Uri.parse("content://sms"), > true, resolver); > > Now this all works fine...for a while; it seems that about 20 minutes > after exiting said activity the ContentObserver will get removed and I > will need to re-launch the Configure Activity to re-attach it. > > Is there any way that I can make sure that this content observer can > permanently listen for changes without ever being killed? > > Thanks in advance! > > -James > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

