On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, johnlugh <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to design an app which monitors how often users check their > email inboxes and also which has behaviour which depends on the rate > of these checks- i.e. punishing for overfrequent checks. > > As I'm new to Android programming, I'm not quite sure if this is > possible as it would need to be dependent on another process which I'm > not in control of (the default Email process/application that is used > in Android). As far as I know, the email service runs in the > background but when you check your inbox/open the application it runs > in the foreground. > > Can you have behaviour dependent on a foreground process like this? Is > there another way of doing this? > > Thanks.
No, this is a frequently asked question, but basically, you can't "extend" apps you didn't write with arbitrary functionality like this. kris -- 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
