Super! Thanks Mark, your suggestion helped me to reduce the redudancy of my code. Now my code works perfectly fine.
Thanks, Jaikishan On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jaikishan Jalan wrote: > > Alright. I guess I jumped in too quickly to shot out my problem . I > > figured out a way (of course with the help of all you beautiful people > > :) ) to run my service in background. What I have done is I first call a > > service from my intent receiver. This service in turns creates an > > instance of Alarm Manager. Since Alarm Manager broadcasts an intent, I > > have another intent receiver, which receives this intent and run a > > service which will do run my logic. It seems to work for me but not sure > > if this is the most efficient and recommendable way to do this. > > As hackbod indicated, the next SDK may allow you to drop the second > IntentReceiver outright, due to improvements in AlarmManager. > > In the interim...you seem to have twice as many IntentReceivers and > Services than would seem necessary. > > If this were my app, I would aim for: > > -- IntentReceiver (A) receives the BOOT_COMPLETED Intent and uses that > to start the service > > -- Service (B), on startup, registers an inner class IntentReceiver via > registerReceiver() for my private Intent, then sets up AlarmManager to > raise that Intent every N minutes, with the inner class IntentReceiver > doing the desired work. > > Then, if that worked, I'd try to get rid of (A) by registering the > BOOT_COMPLETED intent-filter on (B), to see if I can knock this down to > a single service class (plus an inner IntentReceiver class). > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com > Android Training on the Ranch in September! http://www.bignerdranch.com > > > > -- Thanks, Jaikishan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
