[android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-10 Thread westmeadboy
If you have an application with no visible activity then how does the supports-screen tag (in the Manifest) affect app visibility (in the Market) etc? In other words... I believe that if minSdk is set to 1.5 and supports-screen is not specified, then the app will not be visible to ldpi devices.

[android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-10 Thread Luis
I agree with Joaquim Azevedo, there are really good reasons why some functionality like this should (and perhaps it does) exist. For example, I could have an application to monitor the activities being performed in my system (at first, just the basic ones, like UI interaction), so I could just log

Re: [android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Luis wrote: For example, I could have an application to monitor the activities being performed in my system (at first, just the basic ones, like UI interaction), so I could just log all this information into a file, for example. You cannot monitor the activities performed in my system except

[android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-10 Thread Luis
Ok, Mark, thanks for your answer. I'd like to know if, in the opposite way, it is possible to build a BACKGROUND application that induces UI events in the system. For example, suppose that I have an application in charge of receiving SMS with commands (or any other type of message) and executing

Re: [android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Luis wrote: I'd like to know if, in the opposite way, it is possible to build a BACKGROUND application that induces UI events in the system. For example, suppose that I have an application in charge of receiving SMS with commands (or any other type of message) and executing these commands

Re: [android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Mark Murphy wrote: Luis wrote: I'd like to know if, in the opposite way, it is possible to build a BACKGROUND application that induces UI events in the system. For example, suppose that I have an application in charge of receiving SMS with commands (or any other type of message) and executing

[android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-10 Thread Luis
Ok, Mark. What I was trying to do was, actually, an application similar to monkey, but not so random, something that I could customize. In fact, my goal was to build something more like a Remote Desktop, since I would access other parts of the OS then my own Activity. In Windows Mobile, this

Re: [android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Luis wrote: Ok, Mark. What I was trying to do was, actually, an application similar to monkey, but not so random, something that I could customize. In fact, my goal was to build something more like a Remote Desktop, since I would access other parts of the OS then my own Activity. In Windows

[android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-09 Thread Farproc
1. If you really want to hide an activity, try Activity.setVisible(false) or windowNoDisplay attribute of the activity's theme. 2. PendingIntent is not restricted to start an activity. PendingIntent.getBroadcast(), PendingIntent.getService() etc. On Mar 10, 9:45 am, klausa2

Re: [android-developers] Re: Activity without ANY screen output possible?

2010-03-09 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Farproc farp...@gmail.com wrote: 1. If you really want to hide an activity, try Activity.setVisible(false) or windowNoDisplay attribute of the activity's theme. The best thing for an activity that is not going to be displayed is to use Theme.NoDisplay.