I saw a YouTube video from the Android team about running multiple processes, showing how the phone is looking for new pictures on a Flickr account, while doing something else.
With that in mind, wouldn't it be possible for me to run it as a background process, possibly only running when the phone is not being used (if at all possible), and that way not use a whole lot of battery time and not making it slow either? Think of the way SETI works. On 2 Nov., 16:25, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your app will most either kill battery life or spend most of it's time > suspended, making it either unpopular or very slow. > > Most battery powered devices (such as the G1) try to increase battery > life by reducing processing load, so when you whack up the lock the > battery suffers. > > Al. > > > > ThemePark wrote: > > I've been reading through a bit of the Android documentation, and this > > seems to be perfect for developing one of my projects. But in order to > > make sure, I need to get some things straight. > > > Android has processes (background processes being especially > > interesting), life cycles, and as far as I can tell, the ability to > > connect to networks. So as far as I can tell, I should be able to > > build a distributed system, by having a server with my program and > > some data, and then any number of G1 phones, that have downloaded and > > installed another program for downloading some of the data, running > > calculations on it, and uploading it back to the server. > > > Am I right about being able to do that, and how should I go about with > > it? What things should I be careful of/look out for? > > -- > Al Sutton > > W:www.alsutton.com > B: alsutton.wordpress.com > T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
