On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Achanta <krishna.acha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Its not even passing onStop and onDestroy at some point in the future. > It is only doing it in some point in the future when more activities > are started. I tested it 4-5 times and let it run for atleast 5 > minutes. So I don't know how long I have to wait for the thread to > close. > What I was trying to say is that it will not completely forget to destroy it -- onDestroy() WILL be called, just at some time later. Possibly a lot later if the user sits in home for a long time. > Can anyone suggest a work around for this issue. > I have a background thread which starts in the onCreate methos and > which I close in the onDestroy method. But because of this bug in the > sdk 2.1 my thread never stops. But when the user closes the > app[onDestroy hasn't been called] and opens my application again, I > try to create the thread in the onCreate. But after this is done at > some point the onDestroy from the earlier activity is called which > sends a messahe to my thread's handler to stop the thread. So the app > runs now but the background thread doesnot run. > This is actually a bug in the app -- there is no guarantee that onDestroy() will be called before a new instance is created. For example, if you press back to exiting the activity and then very quickly start a new instance, the new instance will be started before onDestroy() because we wait until the apps are idle until destroying activities. The bug here just makes this case a lot more likely to happen. You should keep the state from two instances of an activity distinct -- for example if your onDestroy() is called it should only impact state in the activity being destroyed. -- 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
