Comments on: No Multitasking for 3rd Party Apps?

By: Blain

Blain — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:54:53 +0000

Nope. No multitasking. It's the responsibility of the app to somehow remember where it was, and when starting up again, reconstruct things to where it left off.

But if you watch the WWDC08 Keynote address, you'll see their solution to background processes, at about 54:30. For a sound, text, or icon badge, there's no background nonApple iPhone process that does this. Instead, your servers call to Apple's servers to push the message to the phone.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:11:41 +0000

Gruber follows up:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/march#fri-07-background

To be fair, I don’t think many of Apple’s first-party apps run in the background, either. The Phone, SMS, Clock, and Mail apps do. Or at least they have helper app background tasks that do. But the other ones all seem to quit when you go to the home screen — you don’t really notice because they launch fast, quit fast, and save automatically.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:10:08 +0000

Yup. We'll have to see what the early beta devs come out with, but there seems like there has to be some sort of backgrounding tasking to make a large swathe of apps useful, no?

By: Dieter Bohn

Dieter Bohn — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:28:07 +0000

This seems awfully odd - APPLE'S apps work in the background (i.e. iPod, telephony, and periodic mail checks.