Re: [android-developers] Services and Alarm Manager

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Simon Platten
<simonaplatten@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I finally got my application to continue after a reboot, however if I use a
> task manager to kill the application the scheduled alarms also appear to
> stop.

Correct. Same goes if the user force-stops you through the Settings app.

> I have scheduled a repeating alarm in the alarm manager and this goes off at
> regular intervals, after a reboot the alarm is set-up again and continues to
> be scheduled, but if I kill my application with a task manager the alarm
> also ceases to be scheduled.  I've tried using the debugger to see whats
> going on and all I can say is that the process isn't there any more which is
> what I would expect, but I would have thought the scheduled alarm should
> have remained scheduled?

Nope. If the user wants you gone, you're gone.

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