TreKing. You gressed it. Broadcast receiver. It's an activity that runs for about 600 - 700 mills. On Saturday, March 2, 2013 11:05:23 AM UTC-7, TreKing wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:36 AM, [email protected] <javascript:> < > [email protected] <javascript:>> 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 >
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