Bob, We're familiar with the alert stack on the now legacy Palm OS and would love to see some solution like that on the iPhone for alerts. Unfortunately at this time there is nothing of the sort provided in the iPhone SDK. Apple still does not allow applications to run in the background and APNS (Apple Push Notification service) is the mechanism provided to send alerts to the device. The way APNS is designed is that the OS will only allow one alert at any given time to be available for any specific application. So if two Todo alerts are sent to the device at the same time, only the last alert will be shown on the device.
Thanks, The Appigo Team -- Appigo Support [email protected] Learn more about Todo (task management made simple), Notebook (notes available everywhere), and AccuFuel (fuel efficiency tracker) on Appigo's website: http://www.appigo.com/ Follow the latest from Appigo on Facebook: http://www.tinyurl.com/appigo-fb Follow the latest from Appigo on Twitter: http://twitter.com/appigo Participate with Appigo and our community using the following Google groups: http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-todo/ http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-notebook/ http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-accufuel/ On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Bobbd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rooster stated the reason why notifications are so limited - Apple's > restrictions. I too am an ex-Palm user. As I understand it, Palm > didn't really have background apps either, but it did have an alert > stack. Applications pushed alerts onto the stack. When an alert came > due, it started the appropriate app. It's been over a year since I > used my Palm, so I can't remember what the interrupt setup was like > for one app interrupting another. > > Refgardless, Apple doesn't allow apps to run in the background and if > it has the equivalent of an alert stack, it doesn't allow 3rd party > apps to use it. This leaves push notifications which are essentially > an alert from outside the iPhone. Yes, it seems like a very > complicated solution to what should be a simple problem, but there you > go. Do I think Apple is a bit protective/paranoid? Yes. Does it keep > things safer? Yes again. > > By the way, maybe Appigo can answer this, but I think there must be an > alert stack as opposed to background apps. I use Memory Free to clear > memory and it shows what's running. Even if I have Calendar and Clock > alerts/alarms, those apps are not running in the background. Phone > always is, and sometimes Mail and iPod. > > Bob > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Learn more about Todo (task management made simple), Notebook (notes available everywhere), and AccuFuel (fuel efficiency tracker) on Appigo's website: http://www.appigo.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Appigo Todo" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-todo?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
