Running services

[dalb8]

By default Tasks runs two services: auto-backup and scrollable widgets. My phone has 384MB of RAM and I like to avoid having those services running. The first can be disabled via settings and is obvious but the second seems to always be there and isn't obvious. Of course most phones have a lot of RAM these days, but maybe it would be good to allow the service to stop.

[abaker]

You will be glad to hear that I've added another service in the latest version for handling in-app donations. The service-free v3 billing API requires the minSdk to be set to android 2.3 or above so I had to use v2.

I can look into making the widget service start up only once a widget has been added. Or I can add an option to disable widgets entirely.

I'll also have the billing service shut down if the user has already donated.

[dalb8]

It sounds like it involves the proprietary Play services library (which is incompatible with GPLv3). Please consider making a flavour that doesn't need that.

[abaker]

Billing service v2 only relies on an AIDL that is under an apache v2 license. All of the Google Play interaction is over IPC and won't cause any problems if the google play app is not present. I will also have the billing service shut itself down if billing is not supported.

[dalb8]

Nice one. I've a Flattr account and I've starred your repo, so you can collect a flattr if you have an account and hook it up. I'm probably the only one though:-(

[abaker]

Thank you, I appreciate it

[ccoenen]

@dalb8 you're not the only one, trust me ;-)