Recent content by tcs1752890

Hi guys, I'm getting very lost - the more I read and the more people I talk to the worse it gets, especially as I have now been reading how it's a bad idea to use foreground processes to try to keep an app alive and that really the "correct" way to do it is use the AlarmManager with the Service...

It doesn't have a name - it's for private use only. It's just a bit of a toy really but with a useful function for me. Yes, it was an interesting career. My first job was working on the Tornado radar systems. The processor was an 18 bit device with 16 functions and a 13 bit address field, and...

Hi. No, I'm not a developer. I retired 3 years ago after 45 years of R&D system testing and development in fields as diverse as military aircraft, optical comms and railway signalling. I started tinkering with Android at the start of the pandemic partly to produce something useful and partly...

The phone is a cheap Alcatel model 5003D. All user functionality has been closed down where possible, e.g. all sound off, notifications off etc, and only my app is running. The phone is permanently powered so the battery remains at 100% charge. From what I have read it seems that the only...

I have created an app which can be started and stopped by the user but otherwise has no user interaction. It monitors accelerometer and gps data, reacting to certain events, and communicates with the user only via sms. The problem is that after a few days the app dies - I am guessing that...