On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:36 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> Well, the app reliably works while other activities are running and when > the phone is locked. This may be the case in your testing, but this is not guaranteed. Your app can and will be killed at any point while it's in the background to make room for other components as the system requires. You will find this out quite quickly once you release the app users who manage to get into these type of edge-cases. It sounds like you should be using a Service. > You send the phone a text and you get back the phones location. It > doesn't have to be running. In fact it never has to run. It just has to > be installed on the phone. Obviously it does have to run at some point to do anything. Maybe it runs in response to a Broadcast instead of user interaction but it doesn't just magically work without actually running some code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
