Start GPS Logger on phone startup

[mendhak]

mendhak[CodePlex]
Need to investigate a way if it's possible to start GPSLogger on phone startup and start logging. Need to also investigate if this isn't unaesthetic to the user.

[mendhak]

mendhak[CodePlex]
This may be possible with android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, will need to check if it has weird side effects like appearing and disappearing.

[mendhak]

achadwick[CodePlex]
I don't much like the sound of this one, to be honest: I'd rather start each app separately. -1 from me.

(Hmm, problems commenting today. Hope you don't get 4 copies of the above...)

[mendhak]

Catscrash[CodePlex]
you could leave the "GPSLogger is running" like it is right now, so the privacy / unaesthetic issues should be out of the way, because everyone would now the location is beeing logged...

[mendhak]

mendhak[CodePlex]
Thanks for that suggestion Catscrash, that actually spurred me to work on this (I originally didn't want to for the same reasons as achadwick). Working on it now, I'm able to start the app on phone startup. I'm also able to make it a setting on the settings screen, so a user can disable this feature too, so that takes care of the aesthetic concerns too.

Only problem now is that when it starts up, it actually launches, so I'd like to have it minimized on startup. The work continues...

[mendhak]

mendhak[CodePlex]
There isn't a concept of minimized apps on Android. There is an alternative but it requires rewriting a 'framework' for the app (making it a background service) and so I'm going to leave that for a future release.

[Namec]

hello,

does this feature have been implemented since 2011

[mendhak]

Hello yes it's there. Go to the 'General' options screen and you will see 'start on bootup'

See screenshot