So in the end what I am trying to do is illogical and cant be done some out of the blue way with out building a custom ROM It has to be an app... Which is a shame since I am so close to figuring it out. The service runs fine... Maybe just maybe having it call the camera button press if the volume is pushed down for longer then X amount of time.
What can I say.... I'm stubborn. On Saturday, July 14, 2012 5:14:12 PM UTC-4, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Cythes <cytheshic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So if I take it back to the regular dispatchkeyevent, it should fix > it.... > > or do I need to find something to call it to? IN which case would be my > main > > activity. > > Simply have your activity handle the key event itself, and delete your > service and your boot receiver. Having a service running all of the > time is something users generally dislike, and the service is not > helping you, since the activity is perfectly capable of handling your > current business logic with respect to the key event. > > If you are somehow thinking that you will have something "in the > background" that can respond to key events like this, that does not > work. A couple of key events will get broadcast if the foreground > activity does not consume the event (e.g., ACTION_CAMERA_BUTTON). > Otherwise, key events are for the use of the foreground activity and > the OS. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.8 Available! > -- 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
