Thanks, that did the trick On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Kevin Anthony > <kevin.s.anth...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have an application that needs to fetch messages from a server, >> currently i do this via a service, running in the background. >> However, when my application is not in the foreground, it quickly gets >> pushed out of memory, and stops checking for messages. > > This is a good thing. An everlasting service like this is an > anti-pattern and should be avoided wherever possible. > >> I've been playing with AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter, but this seems a > little heavy handed. > > Could be -- I haven't had a chance to mess with that yet. > >> Is there some middle ground? Something i should look into? > > Use AlarmManager and fetch the messages on a periodic basis, with the > user controlling the polling frequency (including an option for > manual-refresh-only) via a SharedPreference. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in London: http://bit.ly/smand1, http://bit.ly/smand2 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
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