Re: [android-developers] capturing Home key event at application level

2011-02-15 Thread kavitha b
No,Manish It is not possible to capture HomeKeyPress. But there must be possibility to check whether ur app is in foreground. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:20 PM, cool.manish mannishga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How can we capture home key event? I am storing some data at application level, I

Re: [android-developers] capturing Home key event at application level

2011-02-15 Thread Marcin Orlowski
I am storing some data at application level, I want to clear it so that it doesn't consume memory when my application is in background. At the same time, i wish that this data shouldn't get earsed if my application has gone in the background because of an incoming call. Do I need to capture

Re: [android-developers] capturing Home key event at application level

2011-02-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
15.02.2011 13:50, cool.manish пишет: I am storing some data at application level, I want to clear it so that it doesn't consume memory when my application is in background. From what I can find in the documentation, it's not clear if this can reduce memory consumption. An application

Re: [android-developers] capturing Home key event at application level

2011-02-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
2011-02-15 12:21, Kostya Vasilyev skrev: [...] Perhaps this (garbage collection on background applications) actually does happen but just isn't documented, then freeing memory before going into the background is a useful thing. Well, I have not double checked for a while now, but the

Re: [android-developers] capturing Home key event at application level

2011-02-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
15.02.2011 14:41, Jonas Petersson пишет: Well, I have not double checked for a while now, but the onLowMemory() method of my service was certainly called now and then (even though my service wasn't doing anything at all at the time) last I traced it. Does this qualify? Best / Jonas It

Re: [android-developers] capturing Home key event at application level

2011-02-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
2011-02-15 12:58, Kostya Vasilyev skrev: 15.02.2011 14:41, Jonas Petersson пишет: Well, I have not double checked for a while now, but the onLowMemory() method of my service was certainly called now and then (even though my service wasn't doing anything at all at the time) last I traced it.

Re: [android-developers] capturing Home key event at application level

2011-02-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
15.02.2011 15:18, Jonas Petersson пишет: This was a while ago (1.1/1.5 IIRC) so there was no startForeground, but I'm pretty sure I used setForeground(true) to be less likely to get killed. Ok, thanks for clarifying. -- Kostya Vasilyev -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com -- You received