Task killers aside, what about if the OS decides to stop a process because memory is low? Say an app has an alarm set to happen in 2 hours, and the user decides to run Google Maps for a minute. Android might kill said app because memory runs low. Ten minutes later, the user is back on the home screen, but the alarm is gone for good until the user runs the app again. How would something like an alarmclock- style app handle that?
-Mike On Oct 12, 1:22 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > That is intentional. Stopping an application is there for the user to stop > everything associated with it -- processes, alarms, services, notifications, > etc. They will not be restarted until someone explicitly does so (typically > this would be the user re-launching the app and having it do the appropriate > thing). > > It sounds like TasKiller is abusing this API. The API is there for the user > to explicitly stop an app from running without going to the most extreme > measure of uninstalling the app. Trying to use it to automatically stop > things behind the user's back seems... questionable, and probably not what > the user actually wants. > > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Lazarus 101 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have an app that does some polling every 2 hours. I set a repeating > > alarm that starts a service but I have noticed that if I use some task > > manager (e.g. TasKiller) to kill my app then the polling will not be > > performed from that moment on. I know this because I store the time of > > the last poll, I have also checked the server logs and there are no > > requests received from the client after I force close my app. > > Is this the way alarms work or should I look somewhere else for a > > crash or smth? because if alarms really get canceled then how should > > we implement the polling? > > > I'm also interested in what happens with a running service if it gets > > killed from another app (I assume all task managers are using > > ActivityManager.restartPackage() to kill other apps), does it get > > restarted? > > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
