On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Federico Paolinelli <fedep...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I need to know (and probably I wasn't so clear) is: > Will the locationmanager fire the pending intents even if the caller > of requestLocationUpdate was killed?
AFAIK, it should, as that is typically how the PendingIntent-based methods work elsewhere in Android. > In this way I would use the resources only after the event I am > interested to (the change of the location) and could prevent me to > keep a service always running with an active location listener. Bear in mind that the battery cost of the GPS radio being on will swamp any other battery costs. If you use this, set up a nice long minimum time between updates, and hope the device shuts down the GPS radio periodically. I have not tried the PendingIntent version of requestLocationUpdates(), and so I do not know if it keeps the radio on all the time (like the listener version of requestLocationUpdates()) or not. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in London: http://skillsmatter.com/go/os-mobile-server -- 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
