On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 8:18 AM, chrispix <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is what I don't understand. > > The issue right now is that applications are automatically turning GPS > on, causing > battery life to go down. Or at least give that perception. Probably > because those > applications turning it on w/out letting the user know are leaving the > program in the > background accessing GPS coordinates the whole time.
If you know that an app is poorly implemented and sucks battery life by overusing the GPS, you have 2 choices: 1- Do nothing and let the app ruin your battery life. Many others app will be created on the same principle because, well, it's easier to write a bad app than a smart one. 2- Give the app a poor rating, send an email to the developer telling him to go back to work and simply uninstall the app. Eventually the developers will get it, especially if they try to sell their app. I personally go for #2. I have the GPS and wifi settings always on as I don't see why I should have to toggle it when I need them. Apps that behave badly get booted quickly, for example FriendView. For things like Maps, I simply make sure to go back to home when I'm done with it as I trust that this is well coded and thus it will turns the gps off. And I have a very good battery life. > So now the solution for the problem of applications continuing to > request GPS > coordinates, is to disable them from automatically turning GPS on. The > issue is > that if a user turns GPS on, the battery will go down for those same > applciations just as before. So just uninstall them. It's your device after all. R/ > > The issue boils down to requesting updates every 1 second in the > background, not > really enabling / disabling GPS. Because as you said, Enabling GPS is > what you want > the user to be able to do, and keep it enabled. > > So I am just confused how you solve a problem of some programs > automatically turning > on GPS, and running the battery down by telling the user to leave GPS > enabled 100% > of the time. > > -- Going to read blog post on brightness. > > On Apr 29, 10:25 am, Mike Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Apr 28, 11:26 pm, weaselgrater <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I am the developer of SMS Commander, and getting a GPS location >> > remotely is going to become impossible now. >> >> 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. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
