I have two observations/question to supplement what others have already observed: 1)5 seconds may just be too often: if I had such a widget on my phone, I would prefer updating every 30 seconds, not every 5: but in fact, when I find widgets doing such self-updates I generally uninstall them.. 2) you should go ahead and use wake_locks yourself -- not to seize resources and turn them on, but to do the opposite: relinquish screen and network and allow them to go off -- unless someone else's wake_lock is the real culprit keeping them on.
But it it is someone else's that is the culprit there is little you can do: the best you can do is to make the updates infrequent as I already suggested. Finally, the update period is an obvious candidate for a Preferences Menu. On Jun 5, 11:38 am, Chister Nordvik <[email protected]> wrote: > > Frankly, I don't know why the Genie... service sticks around for the > > stock News and Weather. It does not appear to be affecting the > > thoroughly irritating and non-configurable > > change-the-headline-every-five-seconds feature, as that persists even > > when I shut down the service via the Settings application. > > Neither do I, but it seems "everyone" is taking this approach. I > really really miss guidelines on Android development. Both GUI design > guidelines (toolbars at the bottom anyone?) and design guidelines for > widgets doing more advanced things than updating a clock. It must be > 100 different toolbars out there at the moment in various sizes. Why > can't we have a proper toolbar in Android? Sorry, off-topic :-) > > > > So is this really the best solution to have a service running in the > > > background? > > > Probably not. > > I would love to see some better suggestions :-) > > > If you are using a WakeLock, double-check to confirm you are releasing > > it properly. > > No wake-locks. Only using the following code to make the widget change > headline: > ... > am.set(AlarmManager.RTC, System.currentTimeMillis() + 5000, > pendingIntent); > ... > > According to the documentation this should work just brilliant. But my > phone is dead every morning with my widget running. Uninstalled! > > > ... to see who is messing up. > > Well, people will blame my widget even if I try to tell them that they > have another application that has wake_locks so I must make my widget > behave nicely with the rest of the apps out there. > > Well I have made a new service that runs all the time and receives > broadcast events for screen off and on and that works great, so maybe > I'll stick with this. When I have started 10 of my favourite apps I > have a lot of services running so I guess people are used to this. > Seems like services is a bit overused these days so no wonder everyone > complains about battery life with Android... > > -Christer -- 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
