Oh ok. So I guess I should stick with the service because I want it to run in the background, and yea I have unregistered it.
On May 25, 12:16 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > GT wrote: > > Oh, ok thank you. I will rephrase, when you run an app it goes through > > the the android app life cycle. Lets say my activity that contains the > > listener is terminated, will it start running and do what it needs to > > if the phone rings? That is if its not a service... > > If you do the following: > > -- in an activity's onCreate(), register the PhoneStateListener > -- never unregister the PhoneStateListener > -- the activity is closed up on onDestroy() > > Then that is very very bad. > > Your listener will continue to receive notification of call events. > However, its activity will not be on screen, nor ever will it be again > on the screen, so the listener cannot do much of value. > > The same holds true if this is a service's onCreate() and onDestroy(). > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
