That's all well and good, but what I am responding to is your clear recommendation to the original poster to set an alarm to wake up every 5 seconds, as if this is a reasonable thing to do.
If you want to propose having a UI for the user to set the wakeup interval to something unreasonable, that is another topic, but unrelated to the original proposal of using 5 seconds as a way for the original poster to "keep their service doing sometthing." On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Lee <lee.wil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Queue philosophy war. > > > Another way one can look at this: your app is probably not nearly that > > important to most of your users. We are increasingly working on ways to > let > > the users know which apps are doing this kind of stuff, so they can make > > good decisions about the things running on their device, and uninstall > such > > apps if they don't find them important enough. > > Dianne, this second statement about 'giving > choice to users' was diametrically opposed to your > first, which out-of-hand discarded the possibility of > a user requiring an app with such battery usage, > without even knowing if the app would need to run > 24/7. > > 'Please don't do this.' > > I've written an app that has a monitor running in the > background. The user can select the > alarm update period while the device is off. Horrors, > he could select 5 seconds, though of course the default > is on the order of 10 minutes. And of course there's > a power warning. > > Power to the user! > > Lee > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
