PendingIntent in Widget + TaskKiller
- by YaW
Hi,
I've developed an Application (called Instant Buttons) and the app has a widget feature. This widget uses PendingIntent for the onClick of the widget.
My PendingIntent code is something like this:
Intent active = new Intent(context, InstantWidget.class);
active.setAction(String.valueOf(appWidgetId));
active.putExtra("blabla", blabla); //Some data
PendingIntent actionPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, active, 0);
actionPendingIntent.cancel();
actionPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, active, 0);
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.button, actionPendingIntent);
The onReceive gets the intent and do some stuff with the MediaPlayer class to reproduce a sound.
I have reports from some users that the widgets stop working after a while and with some research i've discovered is because the Task Killers. It seems that when you kill the app in the TaskKiller, the PendingIntent is erased from memory, so when you click the widget, it doesn't know what to do.
Is there any solution for this? Is my code wrong or something or it's the default behavior of the PendingIntent? Is there something I can use to avoid the TaskKiller to stop my widgets from working??
Greetings.
