RE: Forcing an android app to quit when the 'home' button is clicked?

That will work if the user hits the back key but if they hit the home button not so much. I leave my app open but I think remember some thread that mentioned the engine sends a message when the app is de-focused. Can't remember what it was. I believe it was suspendStack and resumeStack Ralph

Re: Forcing an android app to quit when the 'home' button is clicked?

Yeh - the back and menu keys trigger messages but not the home key. It hadn¹t occurred to me to try suspendStack - I¹ll give that a whirl. Thanks Ralph. Terry... On 19/01/2016 11:59 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Ralph DiMola"

Re: Forcing an android app to quit when the 'home' button is clicked?

On 1/18/2016 8:54 PM, Terry Judd wrote: Yeh - the back and menu keys trigger messages but not the home key. It hadn¹t occurred to me to try suspendStack - I¹ll give that a whirl. I don't think any messages are sent at all when the Home key is pressed. Ralph may be thinking of the "shutdown"

Re: Forcing an android app to quit when the 'home' button is clicked?

Thanks Jacquie - you’re right, suspendStack doesn’t seem to be supported by either iOS or Android so no joy there. I wanted the app to quit when the user navigated away from it because I have a routine that attempts to sync files that have been saved but not uploaded each time the app starts up.

Forcing an android app to quit when the 'home' button is clicked?

On iOS the fact that a LC app routinely quits when the home button is clicked can be a pain but in the case of the app I’m currently developing I actually want this to occur. Anyway, I’m covered on iOS but how do I make the app quit when the user leaves it on an android device, or is this not