On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, VA7OTC John Erskine wrote:
On 2017-09-12 1136, Kurt wrote:
Ok,
I can get the Android taskbar or whatever to come up by flicking my
finger up on the lower border of the screen. When I have the system
running and I want to close the LXDE windows, exiting outdoes nothing. The
screen comes up I hit shut down and it doesn't close. I pull up the
"square" to minimize and kill it there. I then go to the upper left
Android pulldown and expose it and it showsXSDL running and I kill it there
too. GNU/Root I pull it up and hit return. To get out of GNU/Root
completely, one has to click on the X in the upper right of the GNU/Root
upper taskboard to kill it.
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Kurt KC9LDH-3
This is all pretty amazing. I'm reading with interest as I recently picked up
an 8" LG G Pad III (has LTE/3G & GPS and two USB ports) with the idea of more
usable screen space than my Nexus 5x phone.
I'm nowhere near being able to launch in to following this path, however the
reading of it is most interesting.
What I can say is, seemingly many Android apps:
don't have a Close function,
just won't close,
may still be running even if "closed".
and so on.
One argument I've read is that there is this skookum power/app management
capability in the OS - so, "it doesn't matter." Excuse me?
However nothing of what you're describing there sounds elegant or functional.
I'm not sure that's the point; Or it may be for Kurt but not for me. I'm
interested in the possibility of running it and want to document how in case
others want to play. As to whether I would choose it over one of the three
other Android APRS apps I have loaded on my phone: No, I probably wouldn't. It
may be useful to me as an aid if/when I'm giing more talks on APRS or Xastir,
but on my tablet in that case.
I'm actually not all that happy with any of the APRS apps I have on my phone. I
may soon dump most of them and write my own. I have very specific operational
characteristics that I want.
When desperate I choose Settings (flick the main window down a couple of
times to expose the Cog Wheel on the or pull up All Apps on the phone, or
swipe to the main window on the tablet), view Apps and chose a Forced
Shutdown. Following bitter complaints and warnings I get more or less what I
desire.
I imagine I'll get better at starting/exiting the app, or may be able to
automate it with Tasker if I play with it a lot more.
--
Curt, WE7U. http://we7u.wetnet.net
APRS Client Capabilities: http://we7u.wetnet.net/aprs_capabilities.html
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