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[Krzysztof Tataradziński <ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx>]

So why Ubuntu making the same mistakes? ;)

2015-08-17 8:28 GMT+02:00 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
> >:
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>> 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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