The confusion is not yours;) "Streets of Boston" had the right idea: don't do the network data loading from the Activity, do it from a Service instead. The Service keeps running until someone calls Context.stopService() on it [or until it calls stopSelf() on itself].
For an example, see http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=356 On Aug 10, 5:16 pm, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Matt Quigley > <matthew.quig...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > The problem with using finish() is that I don't want the activity removed > > from memory. > > I'm utterly confused as to why you would need an Activity removed from the > stack but remaining in memory ... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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
