develop a hybrid app

[Mike Kerner]

The short answer is "nope".
• If you have a smart watch, you know that the apps run on the watch, not
on the phone, so even if you get the phone, the watch still wins.
• There is a reason why Nissan is proposing adding Faraday cages to the
center console of the Juke (
https://www.google.com/search?q=nissan+faraday+cage&oq=nissan+faraday+cage&aqs=chrome..69i57.3488j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
- because your ability to conrol someone's phone, or see what they are
doing when your app is not in the foreground, is extremely limited,
especially on ios.
• Similarly, "Cinemode" does not work in Cinemark's app on ios (
https://www.google.com/search?q=cinemode&oq=cinemode&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1737j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
even though it's a great idea.
• That has nothing to do with LC, it's an Apple thing.  Apple is also very
picky about what you can and cannot do when the phone is asleep and when
your app is not in the foreground.  AFA screen dimming, activity tracking,
muting, etc. you can't get there from here on ios.
• You also can't hope to keep your app in the foreground, keep it active
while the phone sleeps, and keep the app pinging your server from ios to
tell the server that the user's phone is not doing anything
• You will note that there are plenty of parental control apps for Android
that allow parents to kill devices between hours x and y.  On ios, there
are no such apps.

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Matt Maier via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> What's a language token?
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Matt Maier wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> > >
> > >> Matt Maier wrote:
> > >> > Is there a concise list of what Livecode can do on mobile devices?
> > >>
> > >> I'm not sure, but filtering the Dictionary with "mobile" will reveal
> > >> language elements specific to those platforms.
> > >
> > > Okay, so am I doing it right if I find "mobileIdleTimerLocked()" and
> > > interpret it to mean that on both ios and android I can find out if
> > > the user has interacted with the phone because mobileIdleTimerLocked
> > > will be false. Or mobileComposeTextMessage will let us bring up a
> > > texting program with a message, but the user would still have to send
> > > it.
> > >
> > > I don't see much else.
> >
> > ...for that specific question.  For the original question of "what
> > LiveCode can do on mobile devices", when I filter the Dictionary with
> > "mobile" I see dozens of language tokens.
> >
> >
> > >> > Auto-reply - prewritten messages that go out when you're focusing
> > >> > to explain what you're doing and when you'll be done. Like "I'm at
> > >> > yoga. I'll check my phone at 5".
> > >>
> > >> That would be handled on the server, no?
> > >
> > > Wouldn't we need something on the phone to know that a call or text is
> > > coming in?
> >
> > Ah, I see. As worded it wasn't clear what the app would be replying to.
> >
> > I don't believe LC currently offers a built-in solution for altering how
> > incoming calls are handled, but if iOS provides an API for that you could
> > write a library for it with LC Builder.
> >
> >
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