[android-developers] Re: How to make a widget that doesn't drain the battery and updates often

2010-06-06 Thread Indicator Veritatis
I have two observations/question to supplement what others have already observed: 1)5 seconds may just be too often: if I had such a widget on my phone, I would prefer updating every 30 seconds, not every 5: but in fact, when I find widgets doing such self-updates I generally uninstall them.. 2) yo

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make a widget that doesn't drain the battery and updates often

2010-06-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Chister Nordvik wrote: >> ... to see who is messing up. > > Well, people will blame my widget even if I try to tell them that they > have another application that has wake_locks so I must make my widget > behave nicely with the rest of the apps out there. You are missing the point. Unless you hav

[android-developers] Re: How to make a widget that doesn't drain the battery and updates often

2010-06-05 Thread Chister Nordvik
> Frankly, I don't know why the Genie... service sticks around for the > stock News and Weather. It does not appear to be affecting the > thoroughly irritating and non-configurable > change-the-headline-every-five-seconds feature, as that persists even > when I shut down the service via the Setting