Well, the "Autostart" preference automatically launches the BOINC
android application (which I mistakenly thought of as just the UI).  The
service components are hosted within the same JVM.  When BOINC is
automatically started at boot a little BOINC icon appears in the
notification area.

Joachim, is it possible to break out the monitor service into its own
process like the Google Maps location service?  I tried to tweak that in
Eclipse and Eclipse kept ignoring the teak to AndroidManifest.xml.

Should we try and take and special precautions when Android notifies the
monitor service that it is running low on memory?

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html#onTrimMe
mory(int)
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ComponentCallback
s2.html

----- Rom

-----Original Message-----
From: David Anderson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 2:34 PM
To: Rom Walton
Cc: Joachim Fritzsch; BOINC Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Android Transition Portrait/Landscape mode

On 16-Feb-2013 8:07 AM, Rom Walton wrote:

> Just to clarify though, the current intent of the software is that the

> BOINC client only runs when the UI us running in some form.

Let's think carefully.
Is this what we want?
Probably not.
It would mean that BOINC wouldn't run unless the user remembers to do
something (i.e. launch the GUI).
I think the goal is: if the user installs BOINC, it runs (invisibly)
with no action on the user's part.
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