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[Николай Шатохин <n.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I used Nokia N9 because it has multitasking.

2015-08-17 23:39 GMT+03:00 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>:
>>
>>> 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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