Automatically start app on boot

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Automatically start app on boot

Postby purps » March 10th, 2011, 11:58 am

Hello there,

Hope this hasn't been covered already; I certainly haven't been able to find anything.

I would like to find a way of starting an app as soon as my tablet is switched on. I was hoping this could be done with a script or something rather than downloading a specific app to carry out this function(not that I can find one that does it!). I see a lot of information about killing apps at boot, but not about starting them.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Re: Automatically start app on boot

Postby Fonefixer » March 12th, 2011, 11:43 am

Hi Purps...

This is an interesting one, to which I dont have the answer im afraid. I have various apps on my scroll that choose to start themselves when the scroll is booted, I would presume there is either a startup script to which an entry is added when a prog requires it.

Perhaps one of the android devs can throw some light on this?
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Re: Automatically start app on boot

Postby Diego » March 12th, 2011, 12:01 pm

I've never programmed for Android (or any Java), but I've done so in php and tcl. I'll download an SDK and see if I can make you something.
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