I can say we received complaints about our application manager when we had background processes for notification services and catalog checks. Some people were concerned about network charges (they weren't in the US with T-Mobile's unlimited data plan). One person was just angry that there was anything running in the background, period (even though we shut long-running threads down on cleanup); so he uninstalled our app.
We disabled notification services and changed our catalog feeds, primarily because of concern for the international users that may get charged for it. This seemed reasonable to us. Other developers have gotten slammed because their apps required permissions, like location, as they were using tracking services for statistics or ads. No matter what you do, you are going to have unhappy people sending you e-mails. If it makes sense for your app and you need the feature, I'd just stick with it and try to communicate to users as to why those perms are needed. On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Jason Van Anden <[email protected]>wrote: > > I released BubbleBeats last week. I asked some people I know for > feedback. A few said "how come you cannot turn it off?". One of my > comments was "I removed the app because I could not turn it off." One > of these people is an Android developer! > > The reason people think they cannot "turn it off" is two fold ... > first, they don't understand that you don't turn things off in Android > ... fair enough. > > Perhaps more importantly ... my app gives the impression that it > cannot be turned off because its notification uses FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT. > The reason I did this was because BubbleBeats is a music player, and > the notification displays the name of the most recently picked song > whether it is paused or not. When you select the notification, it > takes you to that bubble/song. This makes sense to me. > > My question ... am I using this flag incorrectly? Does it matter if > the impact gives users the impression that they cannot close my app? > > I would really appreciate any feedback anyone out there may have. > > Thank You, > Jason Van Anden > http://www.bubblebeats.com > > > > -- Shane Isbell (Co-founder of SlideME - The Original Market for Android) http://twitter.com/sisbell http://twitter.com/slideme --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
