Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:05:37 -0700 | | Subject | Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three | | From | Brian Swetland <> |
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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:59 PM, <david@lang.hm> wrote: > > now, android is betting that the apps are all developed specifically for the > android from scratch, so having a different API is acceptable, even if it > cuts them off from the rest of the *nix applications. For a phone this is > not neccessarily an unreasonable stance, but as Android moves into the > spaces where normal applications are in use (netbooks and tablets), this > becomes a much shakier stance to take.
"Normal" apps work reasonably well -- they get halted when the screen turns off, just like they do when my laptop suspends.
Wakelocks are useful for mobile-centric apps that you want to keep running in the background, wake up and do work when the device is "asleep", etc.
Brian
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