Friend Finder does not turn GPS on. MyTracks does not turn on it. You too can live with not turning it on.
Btw, airplane mode afaik has no impact on GPS. And if you really really care about this, you can find out when you are not getting GPS updates, and put up a notification telling the user about this. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:53 AM, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 29, 8:25 am, Mike Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 28, 11:26 pm, weaselgrater <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, it's not. Just tell users to leave the GPS setting checked. As > > mentioned before, it does not mean GPS is always active, just that > > when an app asks for location it gets one using GPS. > > That's not going to cut it IMO... Users at one point will disable GPS > for some unrelated reason, say, they enter a no-RF environment, switch > to Airplane mode and BTW disable GPS, forgetting about "sleeper" apps > that rely on GPS thus leaving GPS off for good. > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
