He has a service that he wants to run without having any interaction from the user whatsoever... He wants it to be completely transparent to the user, meaning they do not know it is running. That doesn't sound like spyware?
Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com > wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Justin Anderson <magouyaw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> can we create a service without any activity > > > > Sounds like some sort of spyware to me... Fortunately, newer versions of > > Android have made this impossible. > > > > I disagree.. We typically use services devoid of UI for implementing > utility like routines. They don't run forever, and aren't intended > to, but for farming out some shared code to a service that runs in the > background (or, in our case, getting security through more sandboxing > across processes), it works fine. There is also an activity that can > be started by the user, to check up on things happening in the > service, but it's not a requirement... > > 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 > -- 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
