AuxOne wrote: >> On the whole, that's not a good idea. Popping up an Activity in the >> middle of whatever the user is doing will not be popular. There are >> certain circumstances where this is appropriate -- incoming VOIP calls, >> etc. -- but should not be done in general. Users will attack you with >> sharp pointy things. > > The reason I need the Activity is because I'm making some queries to > the Contact database and I need to the ContentResolver.
Call getContentResolver() in your Service. > Can't it launch "minimized"? There is no such concept in Android. > Do you mean the AppService class? I'm trying to do "startActivity()" > from the doWakefulWork but there doesn't appear to be a Context. The Service is a Context. > Your example code has the Alarm scheduled from the BootReceiver, how > do I make the Activity schedule it? Put the alarm-scheduling code in a static method somewhere, and call it from both places. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Online Training: 26-30 April 2010: http://onlc.com -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.