On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Rom Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > I think this is possible. But what advantage would that have? Right now we have two processes, the BOINC client as a native process, and the virtual machine of the Android application (service that starts the client and runs the rpc calls as well as the UI components). > > 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 > > The ComponentCallback2 is API Level 14. So it is not compatible with the API version 9 we are targeting. Unfortunately. > ----- 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. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
