Thanks for the detailed answer, I wasn't aware that some of my issues are related to deeper design decisions. If you need anything tested for Pandora etc I'd be happy to help out if I can.
ganjastone;625266 Wrote: > > I removed both of these because Squidget is a widget and not an > application. Android can put applications on pause state, and an > application developer can stop those notification techniques when the > application is paused. An android widget (at least up to 2.2 or 2.3) > only gets notifications from the android system when it's placed > to/removed from a home screen. Therefore it always operates. If I did > polling of server status, it would be constant polling which means > massive battery drainer, even if you don't see/use the widget. I see, I didn't know widgets had these tight limitations on Android. I guess I was too much comparing to Squeeze Commander and the like. Your description in the market also explains the issue quite nicely, I must have missed that when I installed Squidget. Still, I think without any notification at all you can always end up with that ugly situation where Squidget's display gets completely out of sync with the player. E.g. if you listen to a radio station and then stop the player, no timer seems to be triggered ever and Squidget still shows the station playing even after a long time. It makes complete sense that any sort of constant connection or polling is a big issue for a widget due to battery drain. Since you're already detecting when the screen is turned on (and update the status), would it be possible to poll (maybe on a long interval like 5-10s) only while the screen is on? Presumably the battery drain caused by this would be far outweighed by the screen in this situation. ganjastone;625266 Wrote: > > Regarding switching players, there is a small icon that looks like a > SqueezeBox 3 player. Try it out! > Makes sense :o. Actually I had tried tapping the little player before, it's just not easy to hit that button on my phone since it's so small. May I suggest to make this button more prominent, at least as big as the facebook button (which I will probably never use :D). I'm referring to the 3x4 widget btw, I haven't tested the other ones yet. Last not least thanks for the great program and keep us updated on what's new! -- arris ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arris's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86993 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
