Yes, you can think of this feature like the switch in Windows performance options dialog, processor scheduling:
Adjust for best performance of: (o) Programs ( ) Background services In Android it would map to: (o) Foreground apps ( ) All apps or something like that (with foreground apps being default). Good to know Google is on to this! Cheers On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> So, we're back then to square 1 - how do we make Android *appear* that >> it runs an application exclusively. > > This is already something that we are investigating, though it isn't yet > scheduled for a release as I said: > > "Currently our approach for scheduling is that apps doing background work on > a thread should lower that thread's priority -- the standard applications on > Android do this. This has holes however, and allows people to mistakenly do > background work at a higher priority, so we should more strongly enforce the > scheduling of processes that are not running the foreground UI." > > We are looking at more strongly enforcing that background applications can > not take too many cycles from the foreground. > > Fwiw, Windows does something like this with its process scheduling > categories. We'll probably do something similar. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
