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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Background processing is not readily available yet, no. There are
numerous discussions on how to allow background processing, bluetooth
access, etc…

For Spotify/Pandora/etc… they could use the media-hub interface, to get
continuous playback of music streams in the background, currently.


On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 18:20 +0200, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote:
> Hello,
> If someone clarify me one thing, I will be grateful.
> Suppose that some big player from mobile market want to develop app
> for Ubuntu phones. In example Spotify - they want to develop app that
> will be able to work in background and with screen turned off (on
> Android I've used it in that way almost all the time (when running
> with Endomondo)).
> Another thing - sport trackers - they also want to work with screen
> turned off. Third one - some file cloud services like Insync, Box,
> etc.
> For now it's impossible, right? Are there any plans to allow working
> apps in that way? How we can attract some big players on market when
> that basic feature is unavailable?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof Tataradziński
> https://launchpad.net/~ktatar156
>

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