On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Yusuf T. Mobile <yusuf.s...@t-mobile.com>wrote:

> If you want to "hide" you app window in Android, you may want to call
> Activity.finish()
>
>
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#finish()<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#finish%28%29>


Just to be clear, this doesn't hide the window, it completely closes and
destroys it, along with the activity it came from.


> If you need to continue running even when the app window is not
> visible (because then it's not running), use a service.
>
>        http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html


This is certainly a good suggestion. :)

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