That's right, and I highly doubt you really want continuous location updates anyway.
If you really do, then you do want this architecture. A foreground service is sort of the way you build apps that live indefinitely. Kris On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:41 PM, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Abhilash Baddam < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> You mean in the service i have to request for location updates >> continuously..? >> > > He's referring to a Service with an ongoing notification so the user can > see that your app is running and, more importantly for you, so the Android > system keeps your app's process alive. > > You probably want two things: a service that will do the work and an > Activity that will be the UI. > When you start you app, you have start option. If you hit start, you > create and bind to the service to get the location updates. If your > activity is closed or sent to the background, you unbind and the service > continues to run with a foreground notification. If your activity is > resumed, you re-bind to the service. When the user hits stop, you stop the > service. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > -- 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.
