Kris It's a broadcast receiver it runs on receipt of an sms message and runs for less than a second. Just sends the phone location back to the sender. Re:" trying to get money out of them?" I'm a capitalist. I build products and sell them for money. Nobody has to buy them. Sounds like you are a little left of me.
On Saturday, March 2, 2013 9:46:30 AM UTC-7, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > Your app can't run unless you actually run it the first time, that's a > security feature. (Yes, I know you're catching on boot.) > > Doesn't it seem unprofessional to start out asking developers a > question and then trying to get money out of them? > > Kris > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:36 AM, [email protected] <javascript:> > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > Well, the app reliably works while other activities are running and when > the > > phone is locked. I will have it on Google Play next week and you can > try it > > for yourselves (for a couple bucks). It's called SignalBeacon. You > send > > the phone a text and you get back the phones location. It doesn't have > to > > be running. In fact it never has to run. It just has to be installed > on > > the phone. > > Gary > > > > On Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:53:21 AM UTC-7, [email protected] > > wrote: > >> > >> I have an app with a main activity that has no visible interface > >> (android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay). The app is started > by > >> receipt of an SMS message in a BroadCast activity which kicks off > another > >> activity (also no GUI) that does work and then sends an SMS message. > It > >> works very well; actually better than I had expected because it runs > even if > >> other apps are running a foreground activity. > >> > >> Now I'm familiar with the Android Activity Lifecycle but I guess this > >> means that Android (I'm using 2.33) can run "many" activities "at > once." > >> Even when I'm running a very active GPS tracking application that is > writing > >> layers on a mapview, my "no-display" app starts does his work and sends > the > >> results out on an SMS message. The tracking app that was running never > even > >> blinked. > >> > >> I don't have any problem (at least not programming related), I'm just > >> curious why this works. > >> Regards, > >> Gary > >> > >> > > > > -- > > -- > > 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]<javascript:> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:> > > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
