Applications can't kill services with this. They can only kill background processes, which the OOM killer is free to kill at any time anyway.
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:37 PM, tomei.ninge...@gmail.com < tomei.ninge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Froyo, we found that some new "Task Manager" apps are now using the > ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses() to kill apps. When this > happens, Intent.ACTION_PACKAGE_RESTARTED is no longer fired. > > How can I find out that my application has been killed? > > I tried to start a service, and I do see this message printed in > logcat: > > W/ActivityManager( 2426): Scheduling restart of crashed service > com.example.android.apis/.app.RemoteService in 20000ms > > However, the service is never restarted as advertised, if the app is > killed using the killBackgroundProcesses API. > > (If I go into adb shell and kill the service process, the service will > indeed be restarted ...) > > This looks like a bug anyway, because the notification created by the > app is no longer removed like in eclair (the StatusBarService, and a > bunch of other system services, depend on the > Intent.ACTION_PACKAGE_RESTARTED broadcast). > > Thanks > > -- > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
