Thanks for a very detailed and informative response! It's a polling alert for football/soccer matches (FotMob actually....), so maybe it is important after all :-) As a user I want to know what is running in the background and polling frequently but I have noted that Scoreboard and other apps are not showing that they are running. To me this is not very friendly since I can't stop them from polling the server once I have started the program. And I have no idea if the polling is still active. We decided early on to inform the user when we poll and allow them to click the notification to stop the polling, so I guess we can use the setForeground safely :-)
We are using the scheduling of alarm when the phone goes in "sleep" mode but as long as the phone is awake we are using a regular timer. I think I have enough information to keep my service running now, thanks again. -Christer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
