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, ga...@deanblakely.com 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, ga...@deanblakely.com >> <ga...@deanblakely.com> 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, ga...@deanblakely.com >> > 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 android-d...@googlegroups.com >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
