> I had a similar issue. What I wanted to do was to run a short service > on boot up and initialize a few items and then stop the service. I > understand that its not a good idea to leave the service running for > the entire life-cycle of the phone. I was able to achieve this by > creating a broadcast receiver and starting my service (and do some > post delay items). I still need to figure out how to stop the service > part. Please chime in if any one has any comments on this.
I do not know what you mean by "how to stop the service part". If a service wants to stop itself, it can call stopSelf(). > Can any one point to another strategy for starting up my > service after my package installation? Let the user start it by launching your activity. > An alternative would be to > "force phone re-boot" after the package is installed (obviously after > giving the choice to the user if he wants to continue or not) but I > dont know how to force that either. Any ideas how to achieve that? You can't reboot the phone programmatically, unless you are part of the firmware, AFAIK. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html -- 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
