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I still remember the day I started to make an android app for my mother-in-law to listen to internet radio because the place she lived received has poor FM radio broadcast signal. Why I needed to bother to code an app instead of using an off-the-shelf app is because my old mother-in-law is not versatile enough to play with the andriod UI. So my app is simply there is power on / power charge, it will start automatically. When there is no power charge, it will sleep automatically after a certain time-out (via BroadcastReceiver to receive the POWER_CONNECTED and POWER_DISCONECTED events). So she could simply use a power switch to turn on/off the app.... read more