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Hi, is there a concept for long running background application like on blackberry smartphones? I mean, what can I do if I want to write a notifier that only popups if a special event is raised or a watchdog or something like this.
On the PlayBook, services or similar features are not generally available yet. Clearly the Video Chat app makes use of something like that, but it's a special case (obviously, being from RIM). We have no way to do something similar yet.
We do expect some sort of notifications support this summer, but it's unclear whether that will be released at the same time as any service support, or whether it will merely be for "background" apps which are visibly running. (Given how easily those are discarded when you run the browser and get low on memory, I sure hope not.)
