ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Sturm Flut <sturmflut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good afternoon,

it might be helpful to file a general "Support for cloud synchronisation
in the background" bug against
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-application-lifecycle for this. If other
platforms can do it, we should too.

cheers,
Simon


On 08/18/2015 05:57 AM, Nathan Haines wrote:
> On 08/17/2015 08:42 PM, Thomas A. Moulton wrote:
>> ok so I am mixing threads...
>>
>> Will apps be able to continue running in background or at least be able
>> to keep a socket open when not active?
> 
> On anything other than a phone, yes.
> 
> On a phone, no.  Unless you change the setting manually because you hate
> battery life.  Then yes, and you've always been able to do that.
> 
> But no one's going to spend time optimizing applications on the
> phone--if you break a fundamental design feature on your phone, you'll
> have to live with the consequences.  Your mileage may vary, but if you
> keep unused apps closed you might be fine.  (The default intended
> experience is that you never, ever have to worry about whether apps are
> running.)
>