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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't participated much in Ubuntu Touch yet, and all of this is very
new to me, but my impression is that whenever my app becomes "invisible" to
the user, for any reason, I can no longer expect it to be running.

So, if I were to write either a metronome or a GPS tracker of some kind,
then I would expect it to be necessary to write a background service of
some kind and then use my app as a frontend to that. So in the metronome
case, my app would be used to start, stop or adjust settings. And
particularly in the case of a metronome, I would expect my app to be
invisible quite often, because when you rehearse a song, you'll likely want
to look at the lyrics and not the metronome.


On 23 October 2013 18:33, Michał Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 23.10.2013 16:42, Andy Doan wrote:
>
>> This is the type thing I'm needing to make it eaier to port an
>> application I wrote for Android[1]. It would also be really nice if we
>> provided some helper code for scheduling sync/alarm type services. ie -
>> "call this method in about 20 minutes". If you do that, then our base
>> code group calls together to help keep the device idling as long as
>> possible.
>>
>
> I think a better solution for that kind of feature would be push
> notifications, although this is still (as is the full lifecycle) in the
> works. 20 mins is a long time if you're about to miss the best snow ever ;D
>
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