On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Henrik Lindqvist <henrik.lindqv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. I'am using the AlarmManager to send PendingIntent.getService > with a "Explicit Intent" to an IntentService. > > Read this post from July 2008: > > "The "Alarm Service" sample code in ApiDemos at > http://code.google.com/android/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/google/androi... > is intended to provide the best practices for this. The current > example is a little overly complex because of the need of the > intermediate receiver. In a future SDK where you can have the alarm > manager directly start a service, this is a lot cleaner."
July of 2008 is the Jurassic era of Android development. Personally, I was nearly eaten by a raptor. :-) Seriously, that would have been the Android M5 pre-release. Anything older than, say, October 2008 should be viewed with a bit of skepticism. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 3.0.1 Available! -- 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
