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Why does Astrid use a background process?

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Why does Astrid use a background process? I killed it using a task manager, and the next time I loaded Astrid it told me that the background service needs to run to alert people of new tasks. This could easily be done by taking advantage of Android's AlarmManager API so that no service needs to be done in the background, and thus would save battery/memory for other applications.

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Tim Su (tim-todoroo) said : 		#1

Astrid doesn't use a background service for alarms, only (1) for synchronization, and (2) for updating the widget periodically.

However, if you kill Astrid with a task manager, many task managers use the API call that removes an application's alarms along with the process from memory, which means that alarms won't get triggered.

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Doughy (doughywilson) said : 		#2

Excellent. Thanks.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Tim Su <<email address hidden>
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> Tim Su proposed the following answer:
> Astrid doesn't use a background service for alarms, only (1) for
> synchronization, and (2) for updating the widget periodically.
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> However, if you kill Astrid with a task manager, many task managers use
> the API call that removes an application's alarms along with the process
> from memory, which means that alarms won't get triggered.
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Doughy (doughywilson) said : 		#3

Woops, sorry for re-opening. Marking as answered now.