Thanks for the advice Ytai. I'm still not out of the woods though. My first attempt was to try IOIOService. That is a bit too powerful as MainActivity has some graphic elements that I need to communicate with. I ran into real trouble with runOnUiThread since in the IOIOService I no longer have the Main Activity class. That got a finish command.
Your second idea of Fork IOIOActivity looks more promising but since I'm still new to the android world I don't know how to do the fork. I understand that it is basically a new thread which perhaps I can send the MainActivity object, so that I can do a runOnUiThread on the main activity object. The nuts and bolts of exactly how to do this are unclear to me. I tried to google around for some sort of example or tutorial but I must be missing the appropriate key words. It also isn't clear to me why in the original application the IOIO board was disconnected when my application itself kept running. I have a timer in my application and I can see that it keeps progressing even when the IOIO board has been disconnected. It is clear to me why the application would continue but the connection to the IOIO board wouldn't continue. In any case, presumably if I fork off my own class which has IOIOActivity, then that class wouldn't die when the android display shut down. Exactly the correct commands to create and control such a class are not clear to me. On the other hand I do want my main activity, or something else, to have control over what the IOIO board is doing. If you can point me in the right direction to get my hands on some sample code, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Ilan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ioio-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ioio-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
