{"id":436814,"date":"2010-03-16T15:39:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"15103 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-03-16T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:39:23","slug":"how-should-background-apps-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/436814","title":{"rendered":"How Should Background Apps Function?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightbox2\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Derek%20Kessler\/2009\/05\/card-view-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With all of the attention on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmexperts.com\/wp7s-apps-no-sideloading-virtually-no-background-multitasking\">Windows Phone 7 Series&#8217; lack of true multitasking<\/a>, we wanted to point out that figuring out multitasking on webOS is still a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to do background processing is one thing the webOS is know for. So when 1.4 changed how background processes worked, developers took notice.&nbsp; Absent from the list of 1.4 changes was an alteration that widely affected applications that work in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, before 1.4, background applications wouldn&#8217;t close unless the developer specified them to. Makes sense, however <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.palm.com\/distribution\/viewtopic.php?p=23300#p23300\">some reports suggest<\/a> the built-in javascript garbage collector wouldn&#8217;t be called on background applications, causing memory leaks, and potentially leading the &quot;too many cards&quot; error.<\/p>\n<p>Developers were the first to <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.palm.com\/distribution\/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;t=5553\">notice this changed<\/a> with webOS 1.4. Now, after 15 seconds, applications without an active stage are automatically closed. Naturally this caused a bit of frustration; getting an active GPS location alone can take 30+ seconds, so how could a background applications get everything done in 15 seconds?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/how-should-background-apps-function\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=NT7DIf-GN1E:ww-Tk7my_gw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=NT7DIf-GN1E:ww-Tk7my_gw:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=NT7DIf-GN1E:ww-Tk7my_gw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=NT7DIf-GN1E:ww-Tk7my_gw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=NT7DIf-GN1E:ww-Tk7my_gw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/NT7DIf-GN1E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the attention on Windows Phone 7 Series&#8217; lack of true multitasking, we wanted to point out that figuring out multitasking on webOS is still a work in progress. Being able to do background processing is one thing the webOS is know for. So when 1.4 changed how background processes worked, developers took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}