Hi Kostya,
Thanks for the tips.
I'll forward that to the developers...
:)
Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
> Simon,
>
> Android 2.x framework has an important change in this area, trying to
> nudge developers towards better behaving services.
>
> Since 2.x, marking a service as "foreground" requires a st
Simon,
Android 2.x framework has an important change in this area, trying to
nudge developers towards better behaving services.
Since 2.x, marking a service as "foreground" requires a status bar
notification, so the user knows that a service is running.
Regarding lingering status bar notifi
By the way: All the apps have already implemented the notifcation icon
in the status bar. The problem is, it doesn't change when the app is
killed in the background, so the user doesn't know that it's been
killed.
:(
Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
> Simon,
>
> I think this should be taken up with develop
What Kostya said.
When memory is critically low on the device, apps are killed outright
to regain user control. Android was originally designed for mobile
phones, and nobody wants to miss an incoming call because they have
run out of memory. No notification is passed to the user, because well
writ
Hello Kostya,
Do you think that they really all just made a mistake with their
programming? I thought that since it happens with all four apps, it
must be a general Android problem...
I'll post on their forums though.
Thanks for your advice so far. :)
Kind regards,
Simon
Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
Simon,
I think this should be taken up with developers of these apps.
In particular, my recommendations to them would be:
- Use a startForeground / setForeground call to mark the service as
being important to the user, do it only while the user is logged in.
- Display a notification the phon
Hello everyone!
I'm having another problem with my milestone that I'd like to share
with developers and Android coders: Whenever I run memory-intensive
applications while I have an IM app running in the background, the IM
app is often killed without any user notification whatsoever.
Take this sce
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