Well.. i've tried to use alarm manager like: AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager)getSystemService (Context.ALARM_SERVICE); alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC, nextUpdate, pendingIntent); thinking behind it was - if devices is not a sleep, i'll loop through my headlines in 30 sec interval. If it goes a sleep i don't need to do anything. Well after putting devices to sleep i still see updates. It's obviously i'm doing something wrong but have no idea what exactly..
On Jun 22, 9:09 pm, Alexey Volovoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Skip the work is not a really good option in my case. I have very > little work to do, get next headline and push widget update. So it's > probably will spend equal amount of time of starting and stopping > service > alarm manager , yes it's really good option and you don't need set > very long time - setting it to 0 does the job. > > On Jun 22, 6:00 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Alexey Volovoy wrote: > > > hm.. based on the logs from UpdateService onStart - it's still > > > executing update after i've uchecked the setting. > > > That's odd. That means they must be using a WAKEUP form of AlarmManager. > > I would have expected otherwise. > > > One option is for you to watch for ACTION_SCREEN_ON and > > ACTION_SCREEN_OFF broadcast Intents in your service (or use some other > > method to see if the screen is not -- not sure if there's a simple API > > for that). When you know the screen is off, skip the work in the update. > > > Another alternative is for you to specify an effectively infinitely long > > updateTimeMillis (2 billion milliseconds or so is over a year) and use > > AlarmManager yourself. You can push updates to the widget whenever you > > want -- updateTimeMillis is just a convenient means for doing so. In > > your own AlarmManager work, don't use one of the WAKEUP variants, and > > the alarm will fire when the phone next awakens if it ordinarily would > > have fired while the phone was asleep. > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons > > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, $35/Year > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
