making a service persistent

2009-04-20 Thread va
The android manifest entry android:persistent and the setPersistent() api allows Activities be marked as persistent, so that they do not get killed by the low memory killer. Does the framework provide any mechanism to mark a Service as persistent, so that LMK does not affect it? Thanks, V

Re: making a service persistent

2009-04-20 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Not really. If you are building your own device, you can make new persistent processes like the existing phone process (look at its manifest to see how it is set up), but unless you have a lot of memory this is strongly discouraged because of the resources it uses. In a stock platform build,