[android-developers] Re: What are your thoughts on this service - activity communication pattern?

2011-06-26 Thread Zsombor
Thanks, it seems that I'm overthinking the problem a bit, I'll just skip the postbox stuff. On Jun 25, 9:52 pm, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: If the service process is killed, it won't have its onDestroy called, and won't have a chance to update shared preferences indicating it's

[android-developers] Re: What are your thoughts on this service - activity communication pattern?

2011-06-25 Thread m.andrew
But with this design I can't handle cases where the job finishes, but the Acitivity is not resumed You could control the state of your service using SharedPreferences. Call getSharedPreferences() in onDestroy() method of your service and save the state. Do the same thing in resumed/restored

Re: [android-developers] Re: What are your thoughts on this service - activity communication pattern?

2011-06-25 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
If the service process is killed, it won't have its onDestroy called, and won't have a chance to update shared preferences indicating it's not running. -- Kostya 25.06.2011 23:06, m.andrew пишет: But with this design I can't handle cases where the job finishes, but the Acitivity is not