I have observed that when using the music application, the music continues to play when the device appears to go to sleep. Does this application use a wake lock?
Thank you for your reply On Oct 23, 3:26 pm, "Justin (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the screen goes off, the device goes to sleep. This means that > the main CPU shuts off. You can prevent this by holding a wakelock. > WARNING: Holding a wake lock for a substantial period of time will > have a terrible effect on battery life. Android achieves better > battery life by doing as little as possible and sleeping as much as > possible. Please consider the best interests of your users when doing > things that will adversely effect their experience. > > Cheers, > Justin > Android Team @ Google > > On Oct 23, 1:21 pm, Dex Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am developing an application that uses the accelerometer and/or gps > > inside of a service. It will be in use while the service runs in the > > background until the user terminates the service. I am using usb > > debugging on the device and I noticed in logcat it is saying give-up > > screen and my service stops getting input from the accelerometer. Is > > there a way to have a service run while the phone is idle for a period > > of time without having to disable the key-lock? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
