On 10/24/2013 02:00 PM, Rick Spencer wrote: > It's been interesting to read all the expected use cases, and also the > requirements for application developers. It's good to think hard about how we > fulfill these requirements, and do it well. > > What I liked about Thomas's first iteration of the application life cycle, is > that it is clean, simple, comprehensible, and works. To me, it seems that as > an > app developer you get: > 1. the ability to do what you want when your app is in front and the phone is > not idle. > 2. a set of services via well known APIs to call for things where your app may > not be in front (i.e. music service, download service, alarm service etc...) > > I think that instead of thinking of ways to grant applications long running > processes, we should grow these services. For example, it sounds like a > location > service may be required, etc... >
I think that is where we landed: https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg04766.html Ie, we build out our services but application developers also have a way to implement their own background service if they need to. I added the webbrowser-app example because it was a use case not covered previously and seemed different (I'm happy to be corrected). -- Jamie Strandboge http://www.ubuntu.com/
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