[android-developers] Re: Central service scheduler

2009-02-08 Thread zero
we had something similiar in an older release of openintents, called "alerts". never got around to test it on the current release, but if there is interest we could revive it, shouldn't be to diffcult. zero openintents.org On Feb 7, 9:57 pm, Christoph Studer wrote: > Sweet! Thanks for the reply

[android-developers] Re: Central service scheduler

2009-02-07 Thread Christoph Studer
Sweet! Thanks for the reply and looking forward to that API. Christoph On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > > There is something like that in cupcake. I forgot the exact API name, sorry. > > JBQ > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Christoph Studer wrote: >> >> Would i

[android-developers] Re: Central service scheduler

2009-02-07 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
There is something like that in cupcake. I forgot the exact API name, sorry. JBQ On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Christoph Studer wrote: > > Would it make sense to create a central scheduler for services that > need to run periodically? > > There are a lot of application that want to run at pe

[android-developers] Re: Central service scheduler

2009-02-07 Thread Christoph Studer
That's a good suggestion, and might actually work for a lot of cases. It just came to my mind that scheduling them at the exact same time might actually cause performance and memory problems. Maybe one would've to start them a bit more sequentially. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Greg White w

[android-developers] Re: Central service scheduler

2009-02-07 Thread Greg White
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Christoph Studer wrote: > > Would it make sense to create a central scheduler for services that > need to run periodically? > > There are a lot of application that want to run at periodic intervals, > require network access and need to keep the device awake during