I am creating an application which sends the location information to the server. But when the back or home button is clicked the application is stopped. Is there a way to make the application run continuously in background and sends data to the server ?
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1and also check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8332819/best-practice-to-report-user-location-continuously – Ram kiran Pachigolla Sep 18 '12 at 05:41
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check commens ware location poler its the best out there for poling the location to a server https://github.com/athulh/cwac-locpoll – Athul Harikumar Sep 18 '12 at 05:49
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Use a background Service. Services are application components which can run in the background without user interaction. A good tutorial on Service in android is from this.
You probably want to start the service on launch of your Activity, or you can register for system broadcasts like BOOT_COMPLETE to keep your service running from boot up.
However, keeping your service running throughout without user knowledge is a bad idea, and drains battery also. You probably want to wake up the service using AlarmManager, do processing, schedule next restart, and exit.
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You need to run a Service class for your own application.
Refer docs for more information.
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