On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Mike Wolfson <mwolf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Task Managers are (unfortunately) here to stay.

They get de-fanged in Android 2.2, though, in that they will no longer
be able to get rid of AlarmManager alarms, for example.

> Tying an AlarmManager event to a Service, also has the side effect
> that alarms aren't always triggered reliably (if a Service is taken
> out of context by the container, it will sometimes trigger an alarm -
> especially if there is an alarm that was supposed to occur when the
> Service was out of context).

This paragraph made no sense to me. What is "taken out of context by
the container", for example?

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Mark Murphy
CommonsWare
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