I have an application which I would like to be fully disabled/closed when it is paused (IE. When the user presses the Home, End (call) and Back button I would like the application to be closed, instead of being saved in the history stack).
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It seems to me that all of these much-touted app killing programs are pretty much worthless. I kill all sorts of stuff I never even opened, and 5 minutes later, it's back again. I'm probably expending more power killing programs than I would if I just let the phone sit idle. Am I mistaken? What good are the app killing programs if the programs keep coming back? I'm starting to wonder if the hyped "run multiple applications at once" bit is more of a drawback than anything. Edit: Would there be any harm in removing the Footprints, Twitter, Gmail and Market programs that came with the phone that I don't use yet keep popping up?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there any difference between what happens when you use a Task Killer App to kill an app vs. what happens when the Android OS kills an app due to scarce resources? The Android SDK says that the Application.onTerminate() method isn't called when the OS kills an app due to scarce resources. So it sounds like the OS doesn't cleanly close apps and that it does exactly what the much-debated task killers do. If they do the same thing, then task killers don't do any more harm than the OS itself, right?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm a new Droid Eris user and I am constantly having to kill my apps in order to free up memory to keep my lag time and speed adequate. Will I continue to have to do this throughout the life of my phone? Why if I kill the Apps with Advanced Task Killer do the apps keep activating?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've got an application that has (among other things) three Activities, let's call them A, B, and C. A is the main navigation point for the entire application, and launches B and C directly using startActivity(). They work fine that way. However, when I call C from inside B, I get a strange problem. The code for launching Activity C is exactly the same in both places. The problem is the hardware back button. In the emulator, it takes two presses of the back button in order to close Activity C and come back to B. On a G1, it takes 3 or 4 presses. Upon seeing this, I implemented the usual suspects in C - onPause(), onStop(), and onDestroy(), and onResume() in B. When I press the back button from C and it doesn't work, I get onPause(), onStop(), onDestroy () - in that order, but nothing happens. When it works (on press 3 or 4 on the G1), I get onPause(), then onResume() in B, then onStop() and onDestroy().
I've tried catching the key press of the back button and calling finish (), but that doesn't make a difference. Has anyone seen this? To pre-empt some questions: All C does is display some data. There are no threads or any other special resources that C might have an active handle to that's preventing it from closing. But out of curiosity, if it did, how would I detect that? Any ideas for further diagnostics here?
I am running a background Android Service as VoIP Framework which provides different VoIP services to different Android applications, (VoIP call, Video Call, etc). The service establishes a network connection with the Server(Service Provider) and does some initial handshake before it can start providing service to the Android applications, that's why though of starting the service on BOOT_COMPLETED event.
The problem is when the service gets started on BOOT_COMPLETED event, before even it finishes the initial network connection with server and handshaking, it gets killed by the system. I have tried using setForeground which improves the behavior a bit but still gets killed mid-way. I am working with old version 1.5 r3 of SDK and hence, cannot use "startForeground". Is there a way out or another alternative available with SDK 1.5 r3?
I am considering getting a Motorola Milestone, which should ship with Android 2.something.I have a Nokia, and I really like the multitasking of the Symbian environment. How is it going to be different with Android? Is it a true multitasking os like Symbian or is it not, like the iphone? How do I switch from one application to another? Is there a button which shows all running apps? I read comments that, on some phones, switching from the web browser to another app and then back to the browser causes the page to reload from scratch. Is this still true or was it a limitation of older versions? Is there a task killer? I read very contradicting opinions on this, but I must say I do not understand why I should leave open an app I don't need, and how much an app left open uses system resources (battery life and RAM): I would have thought that its impact on system performance might have been minimal, but still > 0, right? Then why not close it altogether? Or am I missing something here?
View 6 Replies View RelatedOnce upon a time, I set up Google Voice as the voicemail agent on my phone. Now I really regret it.Every time a get a voicemail now, I receive two text messages and an email and it's annoying.So I went to call settings and changed the voicemail from Voice back to "Carrier" and I also removed the Voice number and put back the default voicemail number.Nothing has changed! Any ideas?I am running Froyostone on an HTC HD2, which may complicate things.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy Alarm App. didn't operate because Adavanced task manager killed alarm app....
How can alarm avoid to kill process by task manager except including alarm into ignore list??
Or Can I hide alarm app. in killing list of task manager?
Android doc say:"When the system, rather than the user, shuts down an activity to conserve memory, ... "
But how to simulate this situation?I want to debug the onRestoreInstanceState method,but don't know how to.
I'm using SAXParser to parse large xml document from the net. And sometimes I need to pause SAXParser. I know how to stop parser by using SAXException, but how I can paused it? May be can I stop parser and then set up it to pass already parsed tags?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am seeing an issue where when I hit the "back" button, I get the onPause call, but it isn't followed by onStop and on Destroy. On most phones, I see this, but on one particular phone (Droid-X),
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to use bundle and save the data in OnPause() lifecycle method? The scenario is i have 2 edit text and have entered some data i want to retain the data when the activity is killed and started again. his can be achieved using onSaveInstanceState() but as documentation says, this method is not a lifecycle method and hence the callback is not guaranteed. So i wanted to know if there is a way to save it using Bundle in onPause().
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a loop which draw a bitmap for(int i=0;i<10;i++){
Here I draw a bitmap which will move to right a little bit in each loop.
I want a pause here so that an animation can be made.
I have an application that plays music. I want the application to get notified when the user plays a YouTube video so that I can pause the music in my own app. Is there a listener I can setup or a Broadcast receiver that I can setup to get notified of when the video is played.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI keep hearing that last.fm is better than Pandora, so I'm trying it out. But no pause button? Is this only for people who live in caves?
View 6 Replies View RelatedOur application is defined to launch a SplashScreenActivity from Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN categories= {android.intent.category.LAUNCHER} . After the SplashScreenActivity does its work, it launches another intent to launch MainMenuActivity and finish() is called on SplashScreenActivity.
When we run our app for the first time on our phone, the SplashScreenActivity launches OK, and correctly launches the MainMenuActivity.
However, if we kill the app using TaskKiller, LOGCAT indicates that the application has been killed. I can't debug the app, because launching it from eclipse with the debugger makes it work OK, because it reinstalls the app. Perhaps there is a way to launch the app without reinstalling it?
Here is the Log of us killing our app...
When we launch the application again, the LOG messages for SplashScreenActivity are not logged and it looks from LOGCAT that Android is launching the MainMenuActivity instead. Here is the log...
Can someone Romaine, Diane help us understand what is happening? We saw this happening because some variables are initialized in SplashScreenActivity that aren't available with MainMenuActivity and we were getting NPEs.
I see no means by which my activity can pop itself off the activity stack to return the user to the one he was using before it was invoked. Is there one? My purpose is that my app has some data structures built from data provider queries that take 5-15 seconds to assemble and I don't want a lot of latency if it is used in a few one-shot purposes in rapid succession. I'm more than willing to let the system ask my app to die, but I'd like to keep warmed and ready otherwise.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I do a simple sleep() in Android? e.g. in Perl:
sleep 5;
to sleep for 5 seconds. I have a program that continues scanning wifi until it finds a certain router then plays a tune once found. All works fine, but it scans in 1.6 EXTREMELY fast, where as on 2.0 it scans about once per second. I also made a stop button that does:
mainWifi.setWifiEnabled(false);
But this causes a force close. ? actually every application I have made so far except hello world just gives me a force close. I have checked my permissions in the manifest etc.? I have a soundboard app that cannot play more than 7 sounds before it force closes? why?
Is it my phones hardware?
I have String Array with some strings in it [UP,L,R,R...] and I have some sounds (audio_up.mp3, audio_l.mp3 and so on). I want go through all the strings in the array and play sounds accordingly with pause in between (let's say 1 second).
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I am getting reports that the in the HTC Magic the character that represents the pause in a dial string is different than in the Google build of cupcake. In the SDK 1.5 pre-release, the pause is given by a ','. Apparently, in the HTC magic, the pause is given by a 'p'. Unfortunately, I don't currently have the means to test this. Does anyone know if the PhoneNumberUtils.PAUSE member in the HTC magic build reflects this change? Have any other functions in PhoneNumberUtils changed in order to support this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need a Music player that allows you to pause an MP3 in the background and then go back to it. I have a long MP3 file (3hrs) that I need to pause during the day and switch to a different app and then back to the music player. Everytime I hit the Home button it stops the player.
Are there players that allow you to pause and go to another app?
I am learning about OpenGL and managed to write a prototype game using VBO buffers. If I start the application from Eclipse or adb, everything works fine until I press the back or <Home> button. If I restart the application either by a long press on <HOME> and selecting my program or by restarting it from the applications, I sometimes get a black screen and the LogCat shows this error:
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I am aware that it is probably a wrong setting in my program's flow, but I am not fluently enough with OpenGL.
I am having an issue with a looping audio file using MediaPlayer. I am developing a realtime game and have a 100K MP3 file I want to loop as background music. The size of the file means I can't pre-load into memory (using SoundPool) so I am using the MediaPlayer to stream the data.
All works fine, however if I set the stream to loop (MediaPlayer#setLooping(true)) when the stream gets to the end and MediaPlayer loops, I get a distinct pause in gameplay. Everything seems to hang for a good chunk of time (~100ms) presumably while MediaPlayer re-seeks to the start of the audio file, and this is killing my framerate and making the game unplayable at these points.
There doesn't seem to be a way to configure any memory buffers etc on the MediaPlayer, so I'm wondering if I am using the wrong approach?
Any other ways to run continuous background music?
I get the following error
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When trying to execute this code in a service:
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When the service is first called and no MediaPlayer-object exists, the stream is started correctly. But when the onStart()-method is called again (with the player streaming) I get the above error code. I can't find any information about this error code, so I turn to you for help. Replacing mp.pause() with mp.stop() makes it work. Could it be that the stream does not support pausing? It's an online radio stream (RTSP) in the SDP format.
I have created an application that read messages with voice. I would like to pause any running media player when a message arrives in order to make the voice more clear. Is there any intent that could achieve this aim? I have noticed that google navigator, for example, is able to pause media player (and other music app like pandora).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an app that crops faces - something the app can do in a nanosecond, but I want the user to think it takes a bit longer. So in a case on a button click.
Here is what I have:
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The dialog shows fine, and the faces crop fine too. The problem is - when the user runs the app, the 2 happen simultaneously on the screen.
Is there a way to make it so the dialog appears, 3 seconds elapse on screen and then the cropFaces is run? That way it will look like it cropped the faces in a few seconds, and then the new page appears.
I have an AsyncTask that acts as a countdown timer for my game. When it completes the countdown it displays the out of time end screen and it also updates the timer displayed on the screen. Everything works fine, except I need to be able to pause and resume this when the pause button in the game is pressed.
If I cancel it and try to re-execute it, it crashes with an IllegalStateException.
If I cancel it and instantiate a new AsyncTask in its place the old one begins to run again and the new one runs at the same time.
Is there a way to cancel/pause the timer and restart it using AsyncTasks or is there a different way I should be going about doing this?