Im trying to write a simple app for some running friends of mine. Basiclly they run for long distance and along the way they want to use the band to mark a location. Click on a tile on the band, click on a button that says "Mark" They do not want to worry about the application running or not. So I assume app will be closed on Android phones. I got my prototype working, kind-of. The main issue I'm having is app is closed!
BandPendingResult addTile(Activity var1, BandTile var2) throws BandIOException;
Add type first parameter requires an activity. I am trying to build this as a service that when a button on the Band is pressed "wakes" up the service, gets the GPS location and sends it to the server. Activity is not a service.
When the service starts I have tried to remember the activity its bound to, but when the application get closed the activity is killed off and BOOM!
Adding a Tile requires an Activity because it requires user confirmation (i.e. it displays UI). However, you should not be adding the Tile as part of your service; it should be done (just once) as part of the application's setup/settings flow. The service should only be concerned with responding to the Tile events.
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Apple's documentation says this in the discussion section of the method description:
This method is called to let the
current process know that its counterpart session’s reachability
changed.
The description of the isReachable property says this: WatchKit
extension. The iOS device is within range, so communication can occur
and the WatchKit extension is running in the foreground, or is running
with a high priority in the background (for example, during a workout
session or when a complication is loading its initial timeline data).
I am assuming this would mean that if the watch moves out of or into range of the iOS device, the WatchKit extension would be launched and the WCSessionDelegate's sessionReachabilityDidChange() method would be called, and the WCSession's isReachable would be true if the iOS device just came into range and false if it just when out of range.
I have not found a way to verify this in xcode. For example I put a log message in sessionReachabilityDidChange(_:) and walked out of range, but xcode simply says the app lost connection with the iphone and can no longer debug it. Can someone verify this or point me to some documentation that better describes this?
I think you cannot verify this in Xcode.
I have an app on iOS and watchOS. To check this kind of situation, I can enable debug alerts on iOS and watchOS. When func sessionReachabilityDidChange(session: WCSession) is triggered, I display a debug alert.
Now, if I run (not under Xcode) my watch extension, and then switch off the paired iPhone, the debug alert is shown on the watch.
This shows that sessionReachabilityDidChange is actually called as expected.
Apparently, under Xcode a connected iOS device is always reachable.
EDIT:
To check the situation when the watch extension is not in foreground, I did the following:
Instead of showing a debug alert, I set now the complication to a unique value that is not possible otherwise. I launched the watch extension and put it into background by showing the watch face with the complication.
When I now switch off the iPhone, the complication is not updated.
This indicates to me that sessionReachabilityDidChange is not called in background.
I am using Appium for IOS testing. (java) I want to be able to check the current activity of an app . In the sense when an App switches from clickable to another (say I close the app or switch to another app or open the notifications scroll. I want to be able to detect the page name. To get the current activity name, i use driver.currentActivity(); which is included in the AndroidDriver class.
but There is no direct call for current package in ios, but many suggested that can be found out by looking at the attributes of existing elements in the device screen by calling driver.getPageSource(); how can I achieve this using driver.getPageSource or is there any other way to do it?Any advise on this would be helpful.
You can query current app state, if you have the bundleId of the app then you can
query it's state if its running in background or foreground and it solves your problem.
Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<>();
params.put("bundleId", "com.myapp");
final int state = (Integer)js.executeScript("mobile: queryAppState", params);
There can be 5 possible state as per the documentation.
0: The current application state cannot be determined/is unknown
1: The application is not running
2: The application is running in the background and is suspended
3: The application is running in the background and is not suspended
4: The application is running in the foreground
Refrences
To see if your app is running, assuming you know the bundleId, you can use the driver directly:
driver.queryAppState('com.apple.Preferences');
It returns the ApplicationState:
NOT_INSTALLED,
NOT_RUNNING,
RUNNING_IN_BACKGROUND_SUSPENDED,
RUNNING_IN_BACKGROUND,
RUNNING_IN_FOREGROUND
Since the Drive SDK v3 we are able to receive push notifications from Google Drive whenever a file has changed. At the moment I'm working on a Drive application in Python and I would like to receive such notifications. Do I really need a web server for this or can I implement this maybe with a socket or something like this?
I know that I can get changes by polling the changes.list method but I want to avoid this because of so many API calls. Is there maybe a better way to get informed if a file has changed?
EDIT: I captured my web traffic and saw, that the original Google Drive Client for Windows uses push notifications. So in some way it must be possible to get push notifications in a desktop application but is this maybe some sort of Google magic which we can't use with the current API
For Google Drive apps that need to keep track of changes to files, the Changes collection provides an efficient way to detect changes to all files, including those that have been shared with a user. The collection works by providing the current state of each file, if and only if the file has changed since a given point in time.
Retrieving changes requires a pageToken to indicate a point in time to fetch changes from.
# Begin with our last saved start token for this user or the
# current token from getStartPageToken()
page_token = saved_start_page_token;
while page_token is not None:
response = drive_service.changes().list(pageToken=page_token,
fields='*',
spaces='drive').execute()
for change in response.get('changes'):
# Process change
print 'Change found for file: %s' % change.get('fileId')
if 'newStartPageToken' in response:
# Last page, save this token for the next polling interval
saved_start_page_token = response.get('newStartPageToken')
page_token = response.get('nextPageToken')
It has been stated that an app running a HKWorkoutSession will have special privileges over other watchOS 2 apps, so when a user looks at their Apple Watch, it will go to the view showing running a workout rather than the watch face.
Currently, on both my device and simulator, this is not the case. If I start a HKWorkoutSession and then leave for 5 minutes and then interact with either the Apple Watch, or the Watch Simulator, it presents the watch face.
If I then open my app, it appears to have been frozen, rather than terminated (which is what I imagine happens to other apps). As the UI will update when I need receive a response in my query.updateHandler. Also if I set it to provide haptic feedback every time my query.updateHandler receives a new HKQuantitySample it will do so, so the app must be running in the background in some form.
Has anyone else noticed this behaviour, and am I doing anything wrong, or expecting something I shouldn't?
Here is how I start my HKWorkoutSession:
self.workoutSession = HKWorkoutSession(activityType: HKWorkoutActivityType.Other, locationType: HKWorkoutSessionLocationType.Indoor)
self.healthStore.startWorkoutSession(self.workoutSession) {
success, error in
if error != nil {
print("startWorkoutSession \(error)\n")
self.printLabel.setText("startWorkoutSession \(error)")
self.printLabel.setTextColor(UIColor.redColor())
}
We're seeing that too, for the moment we've made sure 'opens last activity' is configured.
When the UI is active we start a dispatch_timer to request and process data in 1 second intervals.
Make sure you do any significant processing using the NSUserProcessInfo method though and pause the dispatch_timers whenever you are no longer active. You'll get crashes otherwise.
I am working on web application , in my project there is some type of testing and task assignment to employees.
Now when an employee complete a task and assigned to a user the user automatically get the message on his page ( there is 3 user accessing application , one is admin , second is tester and third is verifier ...both of them works on different pages , now when admin assign a task the tester automatically get a notification " new message " ( for this i am using master page)..on whatever page the tester is on working... now if the tester is completes it 's task and assign to verifier , verifier must get notification "new message" ... and so on..)
for this a have put a button on master page ..and also i have make a windows service that runs on every minute , now my problem is how i sent the message from windows service to my master page button ( that i change text of button).
Is this idea working ?
Why do you need to window service to run in background? Is there any specific reason to have the windows service for these requirements?
As per your detailed description what I understood is that when the employee completes a task and assigned to a user the user automatically get the message on his page. So when the employee is working and completed means they will click on some button that their work is completed. Then while clicking on the button, you just write the code for sending the mail to the tester. like the same way, when the tester is completed their work and click on the testing completes, send a mail to the reviewer and so on..Then where is the need to have a window service for this to send the mails?
All the requirements can be achieved through the simple send mail code.
Let us know if you need any more help or if you don't understand the exact scenario or if anything is missing in the requirements.
Hope it will be helpful to you.
I don't think it is possible to send from a windows service informations to asp.page. You can create a button that can query a webservice about new tasks (but you are counting on the user to press it).
Another more "friendly" way is to have a timer in javascript that uses ajax requests to get new tasks.