On 08/05/2013, at 12:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 5/7/13 8:29 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
>> Hi Jacque (or anyone else?) - I may have misunderstood but I'm not
>> getting any messages sent when an app is 'suspended' and 'resumed' on
>> Android (4.2.2). No shutdown message on 'suspend' and no opencard
>> message on 'resume'. Does the shutdown message only get sent when the
>> app 'quits' (when imposed by the OS or the user)?
>> 
>> Looks like I may have to resort to using timers and activity
>> monitoring ;(
> 
> That's too bad. I do know you can trap the backKey message but for some 
> reason we don't get a homeKey message.
> 
> I used to worry about it, but after running a lot of Android apps I've 
> noticed that most of them just pick up where they left off if they are still 
> in memory, or else they start over again if they aren't. It must be a common 
> problem. But that doesn't help you much if you need to do processing no 
> matter how the user leaves.

Yeah - I need to do two things, submit 'session' data when the user suspends 
(on iOS I actually have to store this locally and then send it when the user 
resumes), and logout the user after a given time if the app has been suspended 
(there are potential security issues with some of the data our users are 
accessing). I had this all sussed on iOS but it's going to take a major rethink 
on Android.
> 
> I'm guessing the OS probably doesn't notify the app that it's suspended.

Maybe not. I think you can potentially get a list of active processes and 
determine which one is active. If we could poll that list using an external - 
if we ever get externals for Android - then we could build our own suspend and 
resume routine.

Terry...

> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     [email protected]
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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Dr Terry Judd
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Eduction Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne





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