phonegap background service in iOS5

Question

I am writing update checker program in xcode, my program needs background process( it needs to be run in background), so is it possible in phonegap, and is there any phonega

Answer 1

iOS does not allow background task to run more than a specific time limit.

Similar Post:

iPhone background task stops running at some point

Explanation:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1164616/how_ios_multitasking_really_works.html

The reasonable solution would be to implement a push notification and send a notification whenever there is an update on server.

Answer 2

It is definitely possible to run some JS code in the background to be checking this (https://github.com/jocull/phonegap-backgroundjs).

It won't be possible to do it for more than 10 minutes in the background, though (Run app for more than 10 minutes in background)

So you'll need both a combination of the first plugin I mentioned and the PN service that dhaval is suggesting.

Cheers!