Adobe AIR Development

[osus]

Hi all!

Does anybody know if will there be a way to have background process on BB10? I mean, a process doing things without starting app? i.e. messaging apps.

Will there be something like a TIMER api to let your app doing things at certain intervals (whiout having your app runing, of course)? I.e. I want to run some things every day at 7am, sync and things like that.

[jtegen · Accepted solution]

BB10 does not currently allow background processes. However, you could have your app "register" with your server and you could send those apps a "push" message which would run the app (if not already started). In your case, have the user select when they want the sync to occur, store that on your server, along with their device ID and run a cron job to push a message to your app, on those devices, at the user specified time (taking into account timezones).

[osus]

It's a solution, but it might be very intrussive to launch the full app just to make some syncs, might not?

[jtegen]

Right now, there is no alternative. The good thing is that we were told that push initiated apps does not gain user focus, so the user could be in another app when yours is launched, and they will not see it until they minimize the current app.

[osus]

Well, it's not perfect but good as a workarround

Thankyou man!