I don't understand what you mean about persistent alarms -- alarms are persistent, until a reboot, at which point yes if you want to have alarms scheduled you need to handle BOOT_COMPLETED.
Also the next version of the platform should allow an app to be told when it is updated, though you still will deliberately not be launched when first installed. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:39 AM, M. Dodd <[email protected]> wrote: > > All nice and well - if the API for AlarmManager supported persistent > alarms. > > Currently, if you update an application your alarms will go bye bye > until the phone reboots - no? > > Requiring a reboot just to reset a few silly alarms seems quite > excessive to me - and definitely prevents us from "taking full > advantage of the platform". > > > On 25 Feb, 04:58, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Peter Jeffe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There are many apps that aren't just simple foreground processes, and > > > by limiting what developers can do in this way you're not allowing us > > > to take full advantage of the platform. > > > > That seems quite an exaggeration to me. It's the difference between > > automatically starting things up as soon as the .apk is downloaded, > before > > the user even has a chance to be told of those and launch it, vs. letting > > the user go and start the app, that first time, when they want. How is > this > > not being able to take full advantage of the platform? > > > > -- > > 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. All such questions should be posted on public > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
