No, Kristopher is right. You came into a free forum asking for free help without providing much detail, and then told the unpaid assistance they could see the app itself only if they paid a few bucks. That IS unprofessional. It certainly does not encourage people to help you.
On Saturday, March 2, 2013 3:57:46 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > 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] >> <[email protected]> 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] >> > 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. >> > >> > >> > -- -- 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.
