Hey Mark,
There are two problems with push:
1) Push messages are limited to 256 bytes, and if the app is not running,
the app doesn't do anything. The user is notified, and if the user
chooses, s/he can launch the app, and then the app can do something (which
is really clunky on the other apps tha
I have, and now that LC is going to support Push and Local Notifications, I
am chomping to put them into action along with some background processing.
After reading through the Push API's last night, it looks like for the
moment I'm going to have to roll my own Push server. It would be great if
LC
Hi,
Push notifications would solve this problem, theoretically. Unfortunately, I'm
not sure how LiveCode apps would handle push notifications, because LiveCode
apps on iOS always shut down completely. They simply don't run in the
background. I wonder if it were possible to start a LiveCode app
Mike Kerner wrote:
Is there a way to schedule LC-built iOS apps to do something in the
background occasionally?
Unlike most OSes, iOS has such a strong priority for battery life that
the definition of "multitasking" is a bit different than what you may be
used to, amounting in most cases to s
Hi Mike,
As far as I know, LC apps don't run in the background on iOS. I'd think this is
currently impossible.
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Is there a way to schedule LC-built iOS apps to do something in the
background occasionally?
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