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copied!<p>I would rather run your code as a Service, and hook it to the Activity having the UI through <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#bindService%28android.content.Intent,%20android.content.ServiceConnection,%20int%29" rel="nofollow"><strong>bindService</strong></a>.</p> <p>The other option you have, is to create a <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>WakeLock</strong></a> and maintain the phone on all the time. It may be very hard to the battery, though.</p> <p>Check the dev guide entry for bound services and see if it fits your design: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/bound-services.html" rel="nofollow">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/bound-services.html</a></p> <p>There are many very good tutorials out there for running services, with varying degrees of complexity. Take a look at some of them here:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidServices/article.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidServices/article.html</a></li> <li><a href="http://marakana.com/forums/android/examples/60.html" rel="nofollow">http://marakana.com/forums/android/examples/60.html</a></li> <li><a href="http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=356" rel="nofollow">http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=356</a></li> <li><a href="http://mylifewithandroid.blogspot.com/2008/02/double-life-of-service.html" rel="nofollow">http://mylifewithandroid.blogspot.com/2008/02/double-life-of-service.html</a></li> </ul>

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