[android-developers] updatePeriodMillis not working for widget on 1.6

2009-10-23 Thread Sterling Udell
Jeff, That's good to know, thanks. After running some much longer test sessions (like overnight), that does appear to be the situation, that it's behaving like setInexactRepeating and the first event might not happen for a while. I have to say, this is likely to cause some unhappy users for

[android-developers] Re: updatePeriodMillis not working for widget on 1.6

2009-10-23 Thread Sterling Udell
2009/10/23 Tom Gibara m...@tomgibara.com wrote: But presumably the alarm for updatePeriodMillis will be owned by a system process and will therefore be immune to the task killers. In my experience, that's exactly right, hence its usefulness as a backup for my own alarm. String -- Sterling