Ah sorry I am probably mistaken on that.  So keep that time long please. :)

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Satya Komatineni wrote:
> > Diane,
> > Perhaps I got my question wrong. But the following url
> >
> > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html
> >
> > indicates that
> >
> > ""Note: If the device is asleep when it is time for an update (as
> > defined by updatePeriodMillis), then the device will wake up in order
> > to perform the update. ...."
> >
> > This is based on 1.5.
>
> I also seem to recall Jeff Sharkey saying that the updatePeriodMillis
> does use a WAKEKUP flavor of alarm in the AlarmManager.
>
> People implementing app widgets are welcome to set updatePeriodMillis to
> be some ridiculously high value (or 0 might work...I forget) and handle
> their own updates with their own alarms.
>
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>


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