lomdar67 wrote: > Got it working with llama. Now everytime the Fire TV starts SB Player > also starts. Only "problem" there is, that it is starting in the > foreground. When you implement autostart, could you also add an option > to start it in the background? > > On the Fire TV I see SB Player more as a service. Once it is configured > it should allways run in the backround, no need to turn on the tv, never > see the interface (unless you need to reconfigure something) ;-) > > Best regrads, Michael > > BTW: I tested SB Player intensely for almost three days now, without any > problem. Didn't have to restart it or anything! No problem with starting > other apps or streaming a video while SB Player is running in the > background. The music simply stops and continues when I close the other > app!
It is meant to always run in the background, and in fact it starts first in the background and then launches the main screen. On everything else except for the FireTV the main app screen has a checkbox that allows you to not show that main screen when the app launches. However on one of the early times I tried to get it approved for the FireTV, Amazon complained about the app not launching if that checkbox was un-selected. So I now detect that it's running on the FireTV and not show that checkbox. It just seem simpler than trying the explain the "running in the background" concept to them. Sometimes I suspect about the familiarity the Amazon reviewers actually have with Android, aside from checkbox thing one complaint was that on Kindles the three dots in the upper right that open the app menu do not appear on the FireTV, even though that is the standard Android behavior for devices that have a hardware menu button. The auto launch option will have an always launch in the background option, hopefully it will pass thru the review unnoticed. BTW, the auto music stop thing was actually just fixed in the current version. It was in much earlier versions, but at some point I accidentally deleted a single line of code and disabled that function. It was actually the Amazon review that noticed the problem. That's about the only truly constructive thing to come out of the review process so far. -------------- Squeezebox apps for webOS, Android and Windows Phone, http://www.angrygoatapps.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wt0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98049 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
