Andrei wrote: > it has Notification as arg Yes.
> what is it for startForeground() is used to give preferential treatment to a service that is doing something actively on behalf of the user. The Notification is required to ensure that the user "sees" your service. It would be a Really Good Thing if your Notification would give the user a quick path to stop your service, or at least return it to normal background status. > when is it shown The documentation is fuzzy on this point, but I believe startForeground() will display the Notification at the time you call that method. Conversely, when you call stopNotification(), the Notification is canceled. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Consulting/App Development: http://commonsware.com/consulting -- 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
