Hi Kostya, Thanks for the tips.
I'll forward that to the developers... :) Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > Simon, > > Android 2.x framework has an important change in this area, trying to > nudge developers towards better behaving services. > > Since 2.x, marking a service as "foreground" requires a status bar > notification, so the user knows that a service is running. > > Regarding lingering status bar notifications - I just verified that if a > notification is displayed using the new 2.x API, it disappears when the > service is killed. > > -- Kostya > > 23.06.2010 20:36, Simon Broenner пишет: > > By the way: All the apps have already implemented the notifcation icon > > in the status bar. The problem is, it doesn't change when the app is > > killed in the background, so the user doesn't know that it's been > > killed. > > > > :( > > > > Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > > > >> Simon, > >> > >> I think this should be taken up with developers of these apps. > >> > >> In particular, my recommendations to them would be: > >> > >> - Use a startForeground / setForeground call to mark the service as > >> being important to the user, do it only while the user is logged in. > >> > >> - Display a notification the phone's status bar, so the user knows if > >> the service is still kicked out of memory. > >> > >> - Consider using AlarmManager to restart the service and re-login if > >> there is an active logged in session. > >> > >> -- Kostya > >> > >> > >> 23.06.2010 20:07, Simon Broenner пишет: > >> > >>> 1. Why am I, the user, not informed the the application has died, and > >>> hence, the connection has been lost? > >>> 2. Why are all the IM apps being killed, and not my other background > >>> apps? Sipdroid and Locale have NEVER been killed in this fashion. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Kostya Vasilev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget -- > >> http://kmansoft.wordpress.com > >> > > > > > -- > Kostya Vasilev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget -- > http://kmansoft.wordpress.com -- 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
