but the widget is still on screen and it's working, so it's not fully
terminated, what part of it is being terminated ?
On Oct 15, 6:40 pm, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote:
What this means is... Android decides that your process isn't important
enough to keep around, so it gets
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Efi Merdler-Kravitz
efi.merd...@gmail.com wrote:
but the widget is still on screen and it's working, so it's not fully
terminated, what part of it is being terminated ?
Your process.
The home screen is not your app. The home screen runs in its own
process. The
A widget on the home screen is just a cached view that is shown there. Since
the widget is a BroadcastReceiver with disconnected UI, it only runs when an
action happens. Once it deals with the action, and updates a RemoteView
object which it sends to the system, it dies. A widget is not
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Studio LFP studio@gmail.com wrote:
To support a widget for long process, you might want to start up a service
and do whatever you need to do there. Once you have the new data or whatever
you were trying to get, you can send an intent broadcast to tell your
True, I just usually have all the display update code in the widget itself,
so instead of duplicating it, I just send an update intent to the widget.
Either way, to maintain only one set of display update code, you'd either
have to have the widget start the service (even when not needed) or
Thank you for the answer. Even when Android removes my process, it
still keeps my static state, i.e. static variables, is it a bug in
Android ?
On Oct 15, 8:48 pm, Studio LFP studio@gmail.com wrote:
True, I just usually have all the display update code in the widget itself,
so instead of
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Efi Merdler-Kravitz
efi.merd...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the answer. Even when Android removes my process, it
still keeps my static state, i.e. static variables
No, it does not, by definition. If your static variables are intact,
the process was not
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