Actually a small addition. It's not only your service that's "in jeopardy". I have a similar problem and find that the Widget is being killed by the OS almost immediately out of the gate. From far looks like what you describe. There's a way to start Services in the foreground (through startForeground()), but I haven't yet figured out how to protect a Widget in a similar fashion.
On May 2, 7:44 pm, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > What you should look for: > If you use a background service, check Logcat for something like > "Process <YourWidgetService> (pid <...>) has died" to see if the OS is > pulling the plug on your widget's background service. > > On May 2, 3:40 pm, billconan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > hello guys, > > > I'm developing a widget based on this tutorial. > > http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-home-scree... > > > the same code works fine on my HTC eris. but on the verizon droid, the > > widget doesn't refresh. the widget updates the time i add it on the > > home screen. but after that it freezed. > > > the droid runs a 2.1 os while the eris runs 1.5. can this be the > > problem? > > > I'm updating an image view with this code: > > > updateViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.xxx,.xxxx); > > > is there anybody having the same issue? do you know the solution? > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
