Multitasking Comes to iOS, Time for LC to make it better

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Mon Jun 10 19:20:55 EDT 2013


On 11/06/2013, at 7:23 AM, Mike Kerner wrote:

> I'm not immediately as worreid about getting multithreading/multitasking in
> LC, because there are ways around that, if necessary.  On mobile, though,
> there are significant advantages to having better/more capability while the
> app is not in the front.


Is there some change to background task execution coming on iOS 7 or something? FWIW background tasks are already available for LiveCode by deleting the exits on suspend key and using one of my cheap externals to start a background task ;-)

Apple (at least until iOS 6 .. not sure what announcement prompted this question) only allow 10 minutes of background execution unless your app suits one of the UIBackgroundModes... like a music or accurate location tracking app... Given even with that the battery life is appalling I'd be surprised if they opened this up...

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