AFAIK, this has been the case since Android 3.1. 2012/7/26 Philippe Laporte <plapo...@devicescape.com>
> Hi, > > Is the following quote true? There is no other way? > > > "In platform 4.x, all applications, upon installation, are placed in a > "stopped" state. This is the same state that the application winds up in > after the user force-stops the app from the Settings application. While in > this "stopped" state, the application will not run for any reason, except > by a manual launch of an activity. Notably, no BroadcastReceviers will be > invoked, regardless of the event for which they have registered, until the > user runs the app manually. The usual workflow is when user clicks on your > application's icon. > > Also, applications installed on the /system partition are not subject to > being placed into the "stopped" state after installation. > > What is possible is for another application, to detect the installation of > our package and launch a dummy activity from the package. > " > > > Thanks a lot, > > -- > Philippe > > -- > 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<android-developers@googlegroups.com> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+**unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=en<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 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
