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background services are currently not possible, as RIM wants devs to use events as much as possible. they will be made available at a later date, most likely this is quite some time away (mid 2013)
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Dhanya, can you explain what you're trying to use a "background service" for? There may well be alternative approaches available now, which aren't available to Android, to do what you need. Please explain in more detail what your "use case" is.
Thanks AfzalivE. I do realize there are valid use cases, but I was wondering specifically about the OP's use case.
RIM is aware there are use cases as well, but they're gradually trying to cover as many of them as possible *without* actually resorting to background services, even though they know in the long run those are useful as well. They just believe (as I understand it) that they've been overused and misused in the past, so they want to cover off the other cases first.
Alarms are an easy thing to handle with a system service which wakes up the app at the appropriate time. I'm pretty confident they'll support that before background services, and it completely removes the need to use a background service for that particular case.
Whether there's an equally straightforward current or expected way to support the OP's use case remains to be seen.
Thank you so much for the help !!!! Even i too had a similar task as that of AfzalivE . Hoping that the solution for it will be available from RIM soon
!!!! Even i too had a similar task as that of 