> As I said, these GPS loggers all run indefinitely and don't seem to be > killed at any time. I've personally run some for 6+ hours on a cross country > drive, logging points every 10 seconds and they don't have any hiccups. How > can these apps works if the logging service can be shut down at will by the > OS and it takes 30-40 seconds to restart a service? And you can't do this > type of logging with AlarmManager, can you? >
What you're doing isn't draining the battery only because of the service, but also because of the location updates you'll be getting.. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/obtaining-user-location.html has some really good discussion on this. (I don't think this is a bad use case, in this case, the user of the device probably has the app foregrounded constantly, anyway.) 30-40 seconds, do you really need that kind of accuracy? I would say that I'd only want something like 5 minutes, which an AlarmManger certainly could do (I believe, at least..) kris -- 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
