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.henstri...@canonical.com>: > On 17 August 2015 at 03:15, Krzysztof Tataradziński <ktatar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 2015-08-15 18:58 GMT+02:00 Николай Шатохин <n.shatok...@gmail.com>: > >> > >> > >> 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. > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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