iOS Question Timer background

[Sberla]

Hi everyone, there's a way to put a timer in the background. I have an app that pings with sockets at another desktop software of mine, but the ping in a timer after 3 minutes stops scrolling. How can I keep this timer in the background?

 

[Erel]

It depends. If you plan to release your app to the app store then it is not possible. If not then you can configure your app to be a background location tracking app and it will then continue to run in the background.

 

[marcick]

You can consider to send notification every 3 minutes to the device from your desktop app. The device will wake-up and be able to do some operations (sync data, etc).
Also you probably don't need so frequent notifications, but just when something has changed.

 

[Erel]

Notifications will not help. Non-silent notifications do not wake up the app. They just show the notification. Silent notifications are highly unreliable.

 

[marcick]

Understand. But there is no other to do. At least the desktop app can verify if the device received a silent-notification (supposing that the device will then connect to the desktop app to sync data).