Not to mention that you should probably investigate the legal implications of tracking all of your employees 24/7 ...
kris On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless you bake your own proprietary ROM/image for these phone, it is not > possible. > > You can't run a service in the background without the being unable to find > out. It is always discoverable and it can be terminated. > > Second of all, you'd need a device with a hell of a battery. The constant > drain from the GPS device and the radio will make sure that the phone's > battery is dead in no time. > > > On Friday, June 29, 2012 11:13:03 AM UTC-4, Mihai Popescu wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Your answer does not sattisfy me :) >> >> Perhaps I din't provide enough information. >> 1. I can program, I can learn, but I first need to know if what I want is >> possible >> 2. I am a toal Android n00b, so I need number 1 answered first >> 3. the application is intended to be used for employee tracking throughout >> the country (not making personal trips with the company's cars and wasting >> fuel, or doing illegal activities) >> 4. My application will not have a GUI and it will just send some unique >> hardware code (maybe motherboard SN or phone card SIM number/serial number) >> and its GPS coordinates to some hardcoded server once every 10 minutes. >> Maybe it will also update the interval in which it sends GPS updates >> according to some information acquired from the server once every 5 minutes, >> in order to control server load and mobile operator costs. >> >> After some research, I realised that maybe it will not really be an >> application, but a service. >> >> Still, I need to know the following: >> - Is it possible to hide the app/service from the average user? I have no >> idea yet how Android works, so I assume that hiding it from the application >> manager should be enough. >> - wether if it will be an application or a service, If I can't hide it >> completely from the user, can I password protect it from being manually >> shutdown? >> - how can I make it start automatically on phone power-on? Can I make sure >> the user doesn't manually change its auto-startup settings? >> - how can I make my app keep the preconfigured GPRS/3G connection alive >> but in standby ? (Or open it if turned off and send its GPS coordinates?) >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> On Friday, June 29, 2012 11:24:46 AM UTC+3, Terry wrote: >>> >>> I don't think it can be done! >>> >>> Terry >>> >>> >>> kl. 12:03:08 UTC+2 onsdag 27. juni 2012 skrev Mihai Popescu følgende: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am rather new to Android, and I need some information and opinions. >>>> >>>> I intend to develop an application which would run on some Android >>>> phone, seeminglessly in the background, and send periodic messages to a >>>> server, regarding its current position (GPS coordinates). >>>> >>>> The most important aspect here would be that: >>>> - the application is intented to be preinstalled on a bunch of phones, >>>> before they will be used by a specific group of people. >>>> - the user must not be able to stop/kill the application without some >>>> kind of password >>>> - the user must not be able tu turn off his GPRS/3G internet connection. >>>> >>>> I am aware that there are some security restrictions for developing such >>>> an app, but still my question is wether or not it would be possible to do >>>> it. >>>> >>>> I assume that if not, the next best thing would be to customize the >>>> Android OS with these changes, and deploy it on the set of phones :D > > -- > 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 -- 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
