Re: [android-developers] Manifest android:process field

2015-08-13 Thread gjs
Hi, Once upon a time many years ago, it was useful to run separate Processes in Android apps when dealing with large image files that might cause OOM explosions as the Bitmap API was quite memory constrained & somewhat unpredictable. By partitioning an app & doing such image processing in (bac

Re: [android-developers] Manifest android:process field

2015-08-11 Thread Chris Pick
I am always curious as to why developers are trying to work so hard to get around normal android life cycles.. It might help if you explained what you are trying to achieve and why you are doing this option. You might find a better answer.. -- You received this message because you are subscri

Re: [android-developers] Manifest android:process field

2015-08-11 Thread Gustavo Oliveira
I think Justin has answered your question. The documentation states that a fresh new process will be created only when it's needed. So it all points out to System.exit() probably not terminating your process. It just calls Runtime.exit(), which states in its doc: "This method is unlikely to be use

Re: [android-developers] Manifest android:process field

2015-08-11 Thread Justin Anderson
How is it not an answer? On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, 9:49 AM pedr0 wrote: > This is not quite an answer ... is it ? > > > On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 3:40:53 PM UTC+1, MagouyaWare wrote: > >> The documentation does not state that each time the activity is created >> it will also create a new process.

Re: [android-developers] Manifest android:process field

2015-08-04 Thread pedr0
This is not quite an answer ... is it ? On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 3:40:53 PM UTC+1, MagouyaWare wrote: > > The documentation does not state that each time the activity is created it > will also create a new process. From your email, the documentation states: > > "If the name assigned to this

Re: [android-developers] Manifest android:process field

2015-08-04 Thread Justin Anderson
The documentation does not state that each time the activity is created it will also create a new process. From your email, the documentation states: "If the name assigned to this attribute begins with a colon (':'), a new process, private to the application, is created when it's needed and the ac

[android-developers] Manifest android:process field

2015-08-04 Thread pedr0
Hi all, I am using such field in the AndroidManifest file to unsure that an activity it's started as a separate process each time, I am using it in this way : Following the Android documentation the colon ":" should mean the activity will be started in a new private process each time, or at