background-service

I would like to know whether it is possible to check in the background if someone enters or leaves the a beacon Region? In iOS for example you can use the methods didEnterRegion or didExitRegion to send notifications from the background. Is there any native possibility or has someone a workaround? Android doesn't have any "native" iBeacon capability at all, but you can see iBeacons using my company's open source Android iBeacon Library , which has APIs similar to those native to iOS 7. In the case of iOS, the CLLocationManagerDelegate gives you access to the didEnterRegion and didExitRegion

I have written an app in which the user can send messages whenever they press a button given in the activity, and it works fine for me, but now my target is to send SMS by using double press on power button . but I don't have any idea, how to do that ? Send SMS by using double press on power button below is the code, which I am using to send SMS: btnPanic.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub String message = "My current location is:" + "\t" + currentLocation ; String phoneNo = editContacts.getText().toString();

i'm trying to use FusedLocationApi with pending intent to get period location updates so i can send the data to some server for processing. Everything works. However, there are some instances where the broadcast just stops receiving. I would need to restart the service again in order for it to continue. I already have the service onStartCommand to return START_STICKY so even if the app is killed it should start the service again. Furthermore, I also added a Boot Completed Intent Receiver so if the phone died and user restarted phone it would restart my service. So it seems everything is fine

I have developed an android application which runs background service, I need the service to stay alive even if the application is killed by user or for some reason. I have implemented the service and add return START_STICKY in onStartCommand method like this: public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) { super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId); Log.d("my_state","On start command"); return START_STICKY; } also I defined the service in AndroidManifest.xml like this: <service android:name=".MeterDistanceCalcService" android:exported="true" android:enabled="true" android

I am a newbie in android. I am developing an app in which a particular piece of code executes after every 5 seconds in background.To achieve this I am using a service with timer with a timer task in it. For sometime its working fine but after some indefinite my service is running but timer task stops automatically in android. Here is my code please help. Thanks in advance. public void onStart(Intent intent, int startid) { //this is the code for my onStart in service class int delay = 1000; // delay for 1 sec. final int period = 5000; // repeat 5 sec. timer = new Timer(); timer.schedule(new

I want to check the database in my app every 12 hrs for rows with date column having corresponding date. This is accomplished by writing service in android. But is there any equivalent of services in iOS so that my requirement can be accomplished? Segev No. There is no such thing in the SDK or in iPhone/iPad in general. You can only write code that will affect the eco system of the app, not the operating system. When your app is closed it's closed and no action will be taken until the user opens it/opens a push notification related to your app. If the user approved location based services for