One of my applications relies heavily on a speedy BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast action. The original devices I designed it on, and the emulator, each send BOOT_COMPLETED before the lock screen even appears. I designed my app with this assumption.
As the months go by I received a few comments such as "Doesn't work", which I attributed to the typical ignorant Market comment. I've come to find out that on some devices this intent is not sent for almost 5 minutes after the lock screen appears! I can understand why this was done, to give priority to their own apps at boot time, and to speed up boot time, but it certainly makes it difficult to advertise an app in a consistent way. At this point I have dozens of asterisks: *You can do this amazing feature on every phone except phone X; *You'll have to wai*AVERAGE USER STOPPED READING*. I guess typing this out has helped. I could probably look to see if the system sends another "popular" broadcast even before this one. Still, more fiddling around than necessary. -- 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
