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AdminCarter
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When you buy Locale, you’re getting a great app, great support, and lots of new improvements with future updates. In addition, Locale’s plug-in architecture has over 70 plug-ins available on the Android Market.
Locale offers a lot of great functionality, and its well worth buying!
NetGenSuperstar
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477 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
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At long last Locale 3.0 introduces the Calendar condition to detect events on your Google Calendar, Exchange Calendar, or any other calendar supported by Android.
While Locale 3.0 is available for Android 2.2 or later, the Calendar condition requires Android 4.0 or later. To learn more about Locale 3.0, please see our release notes here http://blog.twofortyfouram.com/post/19303488607/locale-3-0
NetGenSuperstar
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I agree. The lack of this is a major deal breaker. Only if this is implemented again will I consider an upgrade.
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60 votesdeclined ·AdminCarter
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In general, Locale is required to display an ongoing notification in order to run reliably. Background apps displaying a notification are given higher priority, such that they are killed last when Android runs low on memory. A notification has no impact on performance, only on reliability. If Locale is killed, it will no longer work. In fact, Android 2.3 is very aggressive about killing background apps running for more than a few minutes without displaying a notification. In order to ensure that Locale runs reliably, it must display an ongoing notification. Locale simply cannot offer an option that makes the app unreliable.
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NetGenSuperstar
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I agree. This, combined with the lack of calendar events, the high price tag, and the fact that my beta version expired, makes me not want to use Locale at all any more. I know for a fact that applications can run in the background without a notification icon, because I'm currently running Seesmic, Google Voice, Facebook and Google Talk. None of them need this notification.
If the problem is caused by Locale being a foreground application, then the solution is simple; make it a background application like it always should have been.
I also don't like that the beta just recently expired for me. It's one thing to suddenly start charging $10 for an app that was previously free, but forcing an upgrade to that paid app with no warning is unfair.