Right. And in general everlasting services are an antipattern...
kris On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:17 PM, William Kelley <williamtkel...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, if I want a long running process (logging GPS points over several > hours), I would need to use START_STICKY and then maintain some knowledge of > state between service restarts. That is, save state to disk (filename that I > am writing to, specifically). And since onDestroy is not called and there is > no other warning that the service is about to end, I can't use any kind of > buffered file writer because I can't guarantee that the buffer is written > and I can't know to call flush. > > Am I understanding this correctly? > > And thanks Kostya for the info and very useful link. > > Thanks! > > > > On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 11:35:15 AM UTC-7, Dianne Hackborn wrote: >> >> That is the expected behavior. The longer your service runs, the more >> likely it is to be killed (and then restarted if you asked for it to be >> sticky). >> >> -- >> 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 -- 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
