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Haha. Try running that through Apple's iPhone app submission process. Viva truly open platforms!
by zacharydanger 18y ago
Haha. Try running that through Apple's iPhone app submission process. Viva truly open platforms!
- comatose_kid 18y agoWhat would be the problem with this getting on the App Store? As far as I can tell, the guy is just controlling his 802.11 wirelessly enabled garage door via his android phone.
- kirubakaran 18y agoYou can't run your app as a background process in iPhone.
- zacharydanger 18y agoOn the technical side, the wifi scanner portion of this hack runs as a background process to passively determine when the phone gets near his house. And background processes on the iPhone are a heartily disallowed by Apple. On the pure speculation side, I think you would have to be a lunatic to try and push this kind of hack through the App store's bureaucracy. And I don't imagine his particular setup is common enough to warrant it either.
- comatose_kid 18y agoThanks - I missed that part. I figured there was no scanning going on until he pressed a button in his app (of course, now that I think about it, that would be a pretty poor user experience). Apple really needs to get over the background app limitation -> a notification API isn't enough to solve this kind of problem.
- noonespecial 18y agoThat's it exactly. No goofy "app store", no lockdown because "maybe that might interfere with the apple expereince..." Just a skilled user, doing precisely what he wants with his hardware. The true promise of Android, realized.