I am glad we are on an agreement here. I created a bug report for this:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16314 On Apr 22, 7:27 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > And moments after I pressed [Send], I notice Ms. Hackborn indicating > on another thread that Force Stop from the Settings app will get rid > of scheduled alarms as well. > > Given that, I'll agree with your general assessment -- inexact > repeating alarms are practical for relatively short periods (e.g., an > hour), but become progressively impractical with longer periods (e.g., > a day). > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You MUST > >> start the alarm when the app starts, so it can recover from Force > >> Closes or for whatever reason the system decides to terminate it, but > >> once you do that, you can get yourself into a cycle where you end up > >> never firing the alarm if its period is long enough. > > > The only scenarios that get rid of scheduled alarms that I am aware of are: > > > -- Pre-2.2 task killers > > -- reboots > > -- upgrades of your app > > > I have seen no evidence that a crash in your app, or Android shutting > > down an everlasting service, has any impact on scheduled alarms. If > > you have evidence to the contrary, I'd love to see it. > > > The pre-2.2 task killers is still a big-time annoyance today, and > > definitely could cause problems in your scenario. > > > -- > > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > >http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguy > >http://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > Android Training in NYC:http://marakana.com/training/android/ > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in NYC:http://marakana.com/training/android/- Hide quoted > text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
