First of all: Google's idea about design seems to evade me :) I didn't see most of your replies.
1. Legal issues The software (application, service or custom OS) will be used on employee handsets. I assume our customer can get them to sign some papers for this, it is not really my problem :) The client is not a seller, it is a large company and its activity involves mostly transporting goods throughout the country. The purpose of the software is to monitor truck driver location, thus enforcing some policies to save money. Can't have a truck driver get paid for telling lies about being stuck 2 hours in traffic, while watching TV at home, and getting paid for that, right? 2. The custom OS solution I know this is the best option, but I'm not sure the customer will be interested in spending that much money. Also, I think buying car tracking devices might exceed their budget and also cost them some monthly fee for them. They do own over a thousand trucks, and buying GPS trackers for them would go up to 200k, while they plan to invest only half of that in software in general, and not only for the tracking app. Besides, this would mean no profit for us :) 3. More questions regarding Android and having the app run in background Android is based on Linux, so doesn't it have some low-level user management? You know, somewhat like a regular Linux distribution. I am thinking maybe my app/service can run as root, and require root permissions to be shut down (maybe password protected?). Also, I assume that services are the only type of sotware capable of starting on phone power-up, so probably this will be the best solution. The next obvious question would be: can I prevent the user from changing the service start-up settings? And of course: can the service open the 3G/GPRS connection at any time without generating additional dialogs? Thank you! -- 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
