Foreground mode about car-cast HOT 14 CLOSED

What version of Android does the Mot Milestone run?

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It's Android 2.2. MOT admitted this version not stellar, so it is quite sluggish in close to everything. It's not CC's "fault" per se, I was just interested what reason there is for not using foreground. Thanks!

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This is a real issue for me, I use CarCast on the train so I like to read stuff and listen to the music podcast in the background, from time to time CC will just disappear and won't even save a bookmark for the last second so I'll have to go and search for the location. The worst part is that the music stopped in the first place.

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Looking through the code there is an attempt to start as a foreground service, how can I help debug this?

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Are we using it correctly? The google code in the first link did a fair amount of indirection to support many versions of android

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I haven't done any android development so far so I dont know. I do know that CC doesn't show any notification icon on my system even when it is playing so something is probably not happening properly.

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A quick code review that you do call stopForegroundCompat() but you never call startForegroundCompat. There are still calls sprinkled around for setForeground(true/false) that is deprecated in later APIs (2.0 and up actually).

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OK, I desprinkled the setforeground stuff. I committed these changes to Git. Can you test them http://jadn.com/cc.apk. thx

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Oops.. I should at least try this first

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OK, now the version at http://jadn.com/cc.apk runs... can you try it out?

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Still no notification icon upon playing, does it work for you? Do you see a notification icon?

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I believe that calling the foreground task without a notification (a null notification) defeats the purpose, the idea from what I read so far is that there must be a notification icon for the user to know that something runs in the background.

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I can't seem to install my own build of CC, this is the patch that is worth trying IMHO

$ git diff
diff --git a/cc/src/com/jadn/cc/services/ContentService.java b/cc/src/com/jadn/cc/services/ContentService.java
index adce0f1..c6daf0f 100644
--- a/cc/src/com/jadn/cc/services/ContentService.java
+++ b/cc/src/com/jadn/cc/services/ContentService.java
@@ -490,7 +490,9 @@ public class ContentService extends Service implements OnCompletionListener {
                headsetReceiver = new HeadsetReceiver(this);
                registerReceiver(headsetReceiver, new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_HEADSET_PLUG));

-               startForegroundCompat(0,null);
+               Notification notification = new Notification();
+               notification.icon = R.drawable.ccp_launcher;
+               startForegroundCompat(0, notification);
        }

        public void headsetStatusChanged(boolean headsetPresent) {

I managed to install and it crashees, I have no USB cable to debug so it will have to wait for next week.

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The lastest update shows the icon for foreground mode. This should fix the issue, I'm closing it. Thanks!

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