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[Roman Shchekin <mrqtros@xxxxxxxxx>]

Services are must-have feature in mobile OS. Just remember Windows Phone 7
- only music player can work in background, that was terrible for users and
even more terrible for programmers!

2015-08-17 3:48 GMT+03:00 James Henstridge <james.henstridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 17 August 2015 at 03:15, Krzysztof Tataradziński <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > 2015-08-15 18:58 GMT+02:00 Николай Шатохин <n.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >>
> >> When can I wait true multitasking?
> >>
> >> How was alarm realised? I need alarm in my app.
> >>
> >> суббота, 15 августа 2015 г. пользователь Roman Zonov написал:
> >>
> >> > Hello. Alarm  - is more exception, than a rule, there is no
> opportunity
> >> > at the moment to make an app working in background.
> >
> >
> > I'm also little worried why only Clock alarm can work and ring even when
> we
> > swipe down and close app. Why other apps can't do that? Is it security
> issue
> > or something else? I think that blocks lot of cool features (and new apps
> > that could be developed).
>
> The clock application closes just like any other application when you
> swipe it away.  The reason your alarms still function is because the
> application is essentially just acting as a front-end to configure the
> alarms: they are actually managed by a shell component
> (indicator-datetime, IIRC).
>
> It'd be nice to have some kind of general purpose background
> processing mode for applications, but it isn't available at this time.
>
> James.
>
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