On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:14 PM, kamiseq <[email protected]> wrote: > once again, maybe it is too much sun over here :) > > 1. gps is on (powered, whatever) when some app tries to obtain > location info
Right. > 2. gps is off if there is no app looking for location Correct. > 3. you then said that > "For example, HTC Sense phones have a home screen feature that looks > like an on/off switch for GPS. That, however, controls whether GPS is > enabled." > > so there is some other state that gps can be in and it can be > controlled by application. Not an ordinary SDK application. Whether or not GPS is enabled is a so-called "secure setting" (Settings.Secure), which cannot be modified by ordinary SDK applications. > and yes I dont really understand the > difference between on and enabled. You cannot turn GPS on if it is disabled. Think of enabled/disabled as a lock, controlled by the user, which determines whether or not applications even have an option to use GPS. -- Mark Murphy CommonsWare [email protected] http://commonsware.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
