Please don't keep a service running just to register a receiver...! Publish
the receiver in your manifest, so that the system will launch your app when
needed and not have to keep it running all of the time.
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:44 AM, askPrins wrote:
> Rogerio,
> What do you mean by using a service instead? Should the service
> initiate the receiver, e.g. using registerreceiver() ?
>
>
> On Feb 12, 9:35 pm, Rogério de Souza Moraes
> wrote:
> > Hi askPrins,
> >
> > you can implement this using a service class instead of an activity
> class.
> > So you don't need the UI.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rogerio
> >
> > 2010/2/12 askPrins
> >
> > > A WAP PUSH (Broadcast)receiver basically doesn't need any UI. It is a
> > > silence application which handles the Push messages based on actions/
> > > mimetype without needing any intreaction with user,
> > > I've tried to test it in a SMS receiver by removing the Activity from
> > > the project and it stopped receiving the SMS messages.
> > > My question: Does all android applications "MUST" define a activity?
> > > Is there a way to hide it?
> >
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