Or an "Exclusive app" and "App that can pause exclusive app" pair of permissions.
If you really want to make this user friendly the settings page could allow users to select which apps with the "App that can pause exclusive apps" permission actually can pause the exclusive app (some users will want to SMSs, others won't, and the SMS receive is most likely going to be part of the firmware). Al. -----Original Message----- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Streets Of Boston Sent: 26 March 2009 22:20 To: Android Developers Subject: [android-developers] Re: Anything on Android that can do smooth scrolling? Yep, *exclusively* would not be a good idea. The user still would want phone-calls to come in and other such tasks. But wouldn't causing Android to be a bit (a lot) more aggresive in cleaning up not-so-important processes be something that is possible? Another (outlandish?) possibility: A phone-setting that's something similar like 'Airplane Mode' (the mode disabling all the phone's radio-activity). Let's call it 'Game Mode'. It'll give the user a better game-console experience, but a lousier (or non-existent) phone experience. Android engineers: We heard from you what's *not* possible. But what could be possible? I'd be interested in hearing about this from you all, even if the ideas seam outlandish. :-) On Mar 26, 6:05 pm, Sundog <sunns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 26, 3:52 pm, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I should have added that this would apply to the phone's > > *foreground* application only > > I knew I shouldn't have compared it to a race situation... bad > analogy! > > Here's a better example: Imagine you're running Linux and the program > you're interested in is running slow. Why not just go set your nice > level to get all the processor time? > > Anyone who's a Linux or Unix administrator type at all just got it. > ;) > > > Or at least something that allows the foreground app to get a very > > high priority and resource allowance from the operating system to > > minimize the influence of non-essential (background) applications. > > Exactly. But running our foreground app EXCLUSIVELY is just out of the > question, for reasons which should be clear by now. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
