Re: Wondering about iOS background tasks

2016-10-04 Thread Earthednet-wp
Thanks, Henry! I guess that saves the security risk of having apps run in the background and potentially causing security problems. It makes sense. Thanks again, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 4, 2016, at 1:13 AM, Mark Wilcox wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016, at 06:17 P

Re: Wondering about iOS background tasks

2016-10-04 Thread Mark Wilcox
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016, at 06:17 PM, William Prothero wrote: > Folks: > My currently finished app needs to run continuously, as it must play a > series of audio files. I found that, in iOS, audio will play when the app > goes to the background, but the app is only completing the current audio > file a

Re: Wondering about iOS background tasks

2016-10-03 Thread hlowe
Bill, iOS supports local notifications (as supposed to remote notifications) that work even if the app that created them is no longer running. See: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/WhatAreRemoteNotif.html Basic