Don't forget the fact that it assumes the google devs (or, more likely, the mysterious and secretive Designers) have the One True Best Way to change settings.
Want to set profiles in "toggle settings" or other apps (or, say, the much-vaunted Locale) to do things like turn gps off when you are on a train, and turn brightness up when you are outside? Yeah, forget that. Lets see what it takes in 1.1 to turn up the brightness on my phone: Drag down the notification bar (1 drag), click 'toggle settings' (1 click), click 'brightness' (2 clicks) and select a level (3 clicks). Getting back is as easy as a single click to 'back'. Now lets look at the new way. Instead of going to one app that has a list (or no apps, in the case of locale) you have to open settings (click 1), scroll down to the bottom (drag), open display (click 2), scroll down to the bottom (2 drags basically) and click 'brightness' (click three) and then select the slider position (click 4). then hold home (click five, plus a long delay) and select the app you were using (click six). Wow. That sure is convenient when all i want to do is make a phone call in the sun. The good news is, by the time I do that, make my call, and do it again to set the brightness back down, its probably nighttime. (And if I were to set up profiles, I could do all that - plus gps and ringtones - in 3 clicks. Instead of 10+ to do it in 'settings') On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:19 AM, chrispix <[email protected]> wrote: > > While I read the blog here : > http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/future-proofing-your-apps.html > I almost had a heart attack. Having a location based application, the > number one issue we had was being able to automatically turn on / off > GPS based on an application setting. Which quite frankly makes some > sense. > > Having to prompt the user each time to turn on / off gps is a giant > pain from the standpoint of program flow. > > I have used our applications setting to actually turn GPS off, because > it was faster to open our app and close the app, and turn off GPS. > Rather than opening the settings, and doing it that way. > > I hope you have updated the market so we can respond to all the > negative feedback regarding having to manually enable GPS/disable > GPS. > > The coding change is not the matter. The fact that a useful function > was taken away. Can't there be some way to code GPS state to an > application state? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
