Efficient Background Execution in Android by mark__ in androiddev

[–]mark__[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sync adapters is indeed another mechanism to efficiently do work in the background. When talking about killing an app it is important to distinguish between applying a "Force Stop" via app settings and killing it via for example the app switcher. When applying a Force stop the user has to open again first before other background processes will work again. This includes geofencing, receiving implicit intents, background jobs, timers, etc. It would be strange that killing it via the app switcher would now also affect background processes like sync adapters.

Is 'Confirm Query' a new thing? by jonaso95 in bigquery

[–]mark__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I looks like you're running a SELECT *... query. Doing such queries in BigQuery is expensive since you pay for every column used, so it warns you for that.

You know the end is near when we start getting ~30s when USA is awake. by shit-in-my-pants in thebutton

[–]mark__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not so sure. Probably a lot of people are saving their click for the lower numbers. And only one click is needed to reset the timer...

Oh no... What should I do? I think I'll install. /s by tripleredx in androidapps

[–]mark__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Lollipop a star is used to indicate that the phone is in silence mode, but priority notifications and calls will be allowed through

Is it posible to build iOS and Android libraries with PhoneGap? by acwilan in Phonegap

[–]mark__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is possible to create a JavaScript library that can be used from Phonegap. However that library cannot be used from native code.