Running in the background

[Vish Seenarain]

Hello

Is there a way to start my app when the phone turns on?
And can the speech recognition recognize if the app is running in the background???

Thank you

[sankarshan dudhate]

Hi Vish,
I think there is a way to auto start your app but I'm not sure about it.
To keep any functionality in background, you will need background services. Services are available in latest beta. So, you can contact Dave and grab the latest beta.

[Kieran Mason]

As for the automatic starting when your phones does:

app.SetAutoBoot(TrueFalse)

Calling app.SetAutoBoot( true ) method will cause DroidScript be started automatically when your phone boots.  The method will also work in your own apps if you build APKs.

An extract from the Wiki

However, as for the background speech recognition, I'm not too sure about. Perhaps try testing it and see what the outcome is

[sankarshan dudhate]

Hi guys,
You can make speech recognition work in background. It works fine with services. I was actually working on an Assistant app, almost got there when I paused the project because I thought it requires a widget.

[Vish Seenarain]

Hey sankarshan,

I wanted to make a kind of assistant app that can work in the background.
Can you give me a sample of the speech recognition in the background??

Thanks :)

[Vish Seenarain]

Hey Kieran,

Thanks and taken into consideration.

Vish

[Syed Munawer Hassan]

All you need to do is to write app.ToBack() in OnStart function this function will run your app in background

[Alex F]

Will it be also possible to show a layout on the lock-screen (exmp: CleanMaster) or on the home-screen like the music/ weather/ Memo/ Calendar app? Or is that (homescr lay) only possible because they are installed by android

[Nick Weber]

It's easy, just create a service. And then put your speech reg app into there.