How do you know that? There are plenty of service running along with Android system, but battery live doesn't seem to be so poor...
On Dec 10, 8:18 pm, Justin Anderson <janderson....@gmail.com> wrote: > Keep in mind though, that any service that runs indefinitely will drain the > hell out of the phone's battery. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > There are only 10 types of people in the world... > Those who know binary and those who don't. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Sean Hodges > <seanhodge...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > Sounds like what you want is a Service: > > > "A service doesn't have a visual user interface, but rather runs in > > the background for an indefinite period of time. For example, a > > service might play background music as the user attends to other > > matters, or it might fetch data over the network or calculate > > something and provide the result to activities that need it. Each > > service extends the Service base class." > > (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html) > > > There is a simple tutorial here: > >http://minicompact.com/mobiletalk/?p=18, and a more in-depth one here: > >http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=356 > > > And the reference page: > >http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:19 AM, j0hns0n <johnson.tec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello! I have a program successfully running to relate AudioManager > > > and SensorManager. By safe life-cycle practice: > > > > �...@override > > > protected void onResume() > > > { > > > super.onResume(); > > > sensorManager.registerListener(sensorListener, > > > SensorManager.SENSOR_ORIENTATION, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_FASTEST); > > > } > > > > �...@override > > > protected void onStop() > > > { > > > sensorManager.unregisterListener(sensorListener); > > > super.onStop(); > > > } > > > > Just to keep it clean. > > > > My question is that I'm interested in moving this program out of the > > > active part of the priority and keep it running in the background > > > until the user gets back to the program to switch it off. > > > > I'm still very new to all the life-cycle things so I'm just studying > > > away. I still haven't found what I need to find yet. > > > > Bonus (if it can be addressed): It will be really cool if I can leave > > > an icon at the top bar to show it is running. :) > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-beginners%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-beginners%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
