hey mark...
you've got anythin for me?? i sent u a reply but didnt get
back a response...
plz do respond man.. this thin is killin me...
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:52 AM, GT <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>
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Sujay
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