Mike Kerner wrote:
Is there a way to schedule LC-built iOS apps to do something in the background occasionally?
Unlike most OSes, iOS has such a strong priority for battery life that the definition of "multitasking" is a bit different than what you may be used to, amounting in most cases to something more like suspend/resume than true background operation.
In iOS 4 and earlier, if memory serves there were only four APIs that could be used in the background, so most apps had no functionality at all unless they were the active one.
With iOS 5 the range of APIs available to background apps has broadened dramatically, but it's still just a slender subset of what an app might otherwise do so most operations remain verboten for all but the active app.
It's my understanding that LiveCode for iOS doesn't currently differentiate between everything it does and the subset that Apple allows in the background, so all LC operations are suspended when put into the background.
Hopefully that'll change, and RunRev will at least allow our apps to have the same background functionality that other iOS apps can have.
But even if they do, you may want to review the iOS developer documentation at Apple to determine if what you want your app to do in the background is even supported at all in that OS.
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