{"id":521298,"date":"2010-04-08T13:51:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:betanews.com,2007:article-1270749115"},"modified":"2010-04-08T13:51:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:51:51","slug":"apple-reinvents-multitasking-for-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521298","title":{"rendered":"Apple reinvents multitasking for the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tim Conneally<\/a>, Betanews<\/a><\/p>\n

Multitasking, the feature that has been the absolute top of every iPhone user’s want list –which, by proxy became a major marketing point for both Android and webOS — has made its way to iPhone OS 4.<\/p>\n

“We figured out how to implement multitasking for third party apps and avoid those things [battery life and lag]. So that’s what took so long,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs this morning.<\/p>\n

While it’s not actually full background processing, Apple has devised a way to reproduce the feeling. The company provided 7 APIs to developers which constitute the always-on services that apps can communicate with. These include: background audio, VoIP, Background Location, push notifications, local notifications, task completion, and fast app switching.<\/p>\n

With these 7 services in place, users can now run music apps like Pandora in the background, they can run location-aware apps in the background, or can run VoIP apps. With a double-click of the home button, the user can pull out of the app he’s currently in and go to a list of running tasks. If you back out of a game to check your email or answer a Skype call, the game can then pick up and resume where you left off.<\/p>\n

We’ll follow up with more on the iPhone OS 4 update as it arrives.<\/p>\n

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