Dianne, since Service.setForeground() has been deprecated, what should we use to stop a service being killed?
In particular, how should you keep a service alive that needs to listen and respond to phone state events? And on phone state events, why is it that responding to an inbound phone call requires a phone state listener, but an outbound phone call can be responded to via a broadcast receiver. Wouldn't it be better if they both used the same mechanism? On Aug 11, 12:10 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Streets Of Boston > <flyingdutc...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > I have no empirical evidence for it, but i did notice that non- > > foreground background services were being killed more aggresively. But > > i could be mistaken. > > It could be more memory. Oh and also there is now a limit on the maximum > number of background processes we keep -- it turned out especially once all > of the memory on the nexus one was available, for devices with large amounts > of RAM we could keep around a fairly ridiculous number of processes. :) > > Services have for a number of releases been pushed into the background class > after running for a while, to eventually get killed and restarted. On > devices like the Nexus One this could happen a bit more frequently. > However, for the last few releases it has been designed to basically > guarantee that a background service will always get killed every now and > then. > > If you are running a service that the user is aware of, you should use > Service.startForeground(). One of the things this does is tell the system > the user would not be happy if the service's process gets temporarily > killed. (Note that as of 2.0 Service.setForeground() is deprecated and has > become a no-op.) > > -- > 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
