Thank you, you answered all of my questions On Dec 29, 10:52 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:56 PM, b_t <bartata...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmm, so there is no possibility to display "real-time" information in > > a widget? For example a compass widget? > > Correct, app widgets are not intended to be continually refreshing. > > > What is an acceptable refresh rate? > > Less is better. For polling, I'd suggest 15 minutes. Many times you would > be better off doing something push-based, however, such as how gmail gets > pushes when there is new mail, causing it to sync, and update any widget as > part of that process. > > > And the main question, why does the alarmmanager send alarms in sleep > > mode > > when I use RTC instead of RTC_WAKEUP? > > Because something is still keeping the CPU running. Note the use of the > word "asleep" in the documentation here is somewhat misleading -- it is not > talking about the screen being off, but the actual CPU being asleep. > > -- > 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.
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