Mark, yeah, I missed that part in the OT, but Windows Mobile uses it for it's exchange push mail. And Google probably also uses it for the GMail and Calendar. And most I always have my connection open on my phone (a HTC Wizard for the record), probably like most people with an unlimited data plan.
On 26 nov, 21:56, "Dianne Hackborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:33 AM, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > P.S. To to folks at Google, please help us out. By not giving devs the > > ability to push notifications to our apps from the internet, you've > > seriously gimped our ability to design lots of killer apps and thereby > > boost the popularity of android. This has got to be something you guys > > have thought about before, right? I know you wanted 3rd parties to > > handle the exchange compatibility, but you had to consider that we'd > > need some sort of Push to do that. Should we wait for the next SDK > > update or what? > > You can have a look through the list archives for discussion about this; > it's probably not worth having again. Summary: there was a push mechanism > in early SDKs, but we weren't able to get it production quality for 1.0. > It's certainly something we want to do, though I don't know when except it > won't be in the next SDK update. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
