That's not *quite* what I'm after... I want the service to continue running (whatever happens to the calling activity) and then later (i.e. 2 hours) when the user calls the activity again (could be recreated or restarted) the service can be bound to, information collected from it, and then destroyed.
Yes, that sums it up. Does the model you suggest still fit?! On Dec 11, 6:43 pm, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > You probably want to bind in onStart() and unbind in onStop(). Remember > that the service will run *either* if you are bound to it *or* if somebody > called startService() without a corresponding stopService()/stopSelf(). If > you bind in onStart() and unbind in onStop(), then your HOME button press > will unbind from the service...which will either shut down (if the user > didn't press Play or whatever is triggering startService()) or not (if > startService() indeed was called). > -- 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

