multiple concurrent apps on an iphone

[bwanaaa]

i notice that music started on the iphone continues to play even after you switch out of the ipod app. is this behavior unique to music? if i start pandora and then switch out of IT, however, the music stops. is there anyway to keep pandora running like the ipod player on an iphone 3Gs?

 

[sourceninja]

apple only allows it's own apps to run in the background. If you want to run your own apps in the background you must jailbreak your phone and install backgrounder. I would also recommend insomnia so your phone doesn't go to sleep while you are keeping an app in the background.

 

[Need4Speed]

no .. the iphone doesn't do background apps .. less you jailbreak it

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Apple allows its own apps to run in the background.

 

[Nothinman]

Horray for hypocrisy?

 

[Kmax82]

Not really hypocrisy.. more of a double standard. On the flipside, allowing third party apps to run in the background would require some new UI implementation. Right now iPod and Phone are the only apps able to run in the background, but they basically run all the time. For music apps it could be as simple as just checking if music is playing when you press the home button. If it is, then it stays open, if it isn't then it quits out of the app. However, for other applications.. it could get a little bit tricky.

I bet that they will come around next year with 4.0, but I bet it will be a feature that only the 3GS and the 4G iPhone will support.

 

[Nothinman]

Not really hypocrisy.. more of a double standard.

I'd say it's more hypocrisy because they say they're doing it because letting apps run in the background will hurt performance but then they go and let their own run in the background when it's convenient or a selling point.

I bet that they will come around next year with 4.0, but I bet it will be a feature that only the 3GS and the 4G iPhone will support.

I'm surprised they haven't done it already since the Storm and Pre do it already and do it pretty well.

 

[ric1287]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Not really hypocrisy.. more of a double standard.

I'd say it's more hypocrisy because they say they're doing it because letting apps run in the background will hurt performance but then they go and let their own run in the background when it's convenient or a selling point.

I bet that they will come around next year with 4.0, but I bet it will be a feature that only the 3GS and the 4G iPhone will support.

I'm surprised they haven't done it already since the Storm and Pre do it already and do it pretty well.

I still don't see the point of it with the push capability. Pandora is the only app I can think of that would be needed in the background. Everything else works fine with push.

 

[sourceninja]

Push is all I ever really wanted. It saves battery life because the app doesn't need to be running. I use beejive IM and have been connected for as long as I have cared to be. I just open the app, login, close it and boom all IM's go to my phone.

 

[Nothinman]

I still don't see the point of it with the push capability. Pandora is the only app I can think of that would be needed in the background. Everything else works fine with push.

For the most part I don't care if the data gets there via push or pull, the more push stuff that happens the better. But I for one like the fact that my weather app can update itself in the background and change the icon to match the current conditions and that I can jump out of Google Maps to start up a web browser to look something up then paste the results back into Google Maps. I kinda use my BB as a mini-computer and being able to multitask is huge for me.

 

[ric1287]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

I still don't see the point of it with the push capability. Pandora is the only app I can think of that would be needed in the background. Everything else works fine with push.

For the most part I don't care if the data gets there via push or pull, the more push stuff that happens the better. But I for one like the fact that my weather app can update itself in the background and change the icon to match the current conditions and that I can jump out of Google Maps to start up a web browser to look something up then paste the results back into Google Maps. I kinda use my BB as a mini-computer and being able to multitask is huge for me.

I just think you have to sacrifice somewhere. You can't have a fast proc, awesome graphics, awesome interface - and then have everything running at once. It just wouldn't work from a heat, battery, and speed standpoint.

 

[Nothinman]

I just think you have to sacrifice somewhere. You can't have a fast proc, awesome graphics, awesome interface - and then have everything running at once. It just wouldn't work from a heat, battery, and speed standpoint.

No doubt and I don't expect to have a dozen processes in the background doing stuff all of the time. But having a handful of apps like my weather app updating every 30m isn't going to have any real affect on the system. AFAICT iPhone users are sacrificing when they don't have to just because Apple says so.