Re: [b2g] Prevent app from being killed

2014-05-23 Thread Borja Salguero
El 23/05/14 15:31, "Pipo Koenig" escribió: >I cannot see how the mozAlarms approach could work. >When I add the alarm from within the app that gets eventually killed, >then the message handler for the alarm gets killed as well and will never >be called, right? When you are adding an alarm (ima

Re: [b2g] Prevent app from being killed

2014-05-23 Thread Pipo Koenig
> Could you potentially use mozAlarms to wake your app up in case it gets > closed? This is what we do for calendar to synchronize events with the server. > Thanks guys, I cannot see how the mozAlarms approach could work. When I add the alarm from within the app that gets eventually killed, the

Re: [b2g] Prevent app from being killed

2014-05-22 Thread Kevin Grandon
-...@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 2:24:48 PM Subject: [b2g] Prevent app from being killed Hi there, I'm quite new to Firefox OS. At the moment I'm struggling with implementing some kind of a "service" that listens for geolocation updates in the background.

Re: [b2g] Prevent app from being killed

2014-05-22 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 22/05/2014 20:02, Pipo Koenig wrote: Thanks, but sorry, I don't get it yet. So the app has to listen to a system message? Which one should that be? That's something I have to figure out myself :) And is there a lifecycle event that notifies the app that it is about to be discarded? I'm n

Re: [b2g] Prevent app from being killed

2014-05-22 Thread Pipo Koenig
> requesting a wake-lock alone is not enough to keep your app alive, you > > also need to be waiting for some kind of system message and I'm not sure > > if the geolocation service counts towards that. Thanks, but sorry, I don't get it yet. So the app has to listen to a system message? Which

Re: [b2g] Prevent app from being killed

2014-05-22 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 22/05/2014 13:24, porschekoe...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm quite new to Firefox OS. At the moment I'm struggling with implementing some kind of a "service" that listens for geolocation updates in the background. If there are lots of other apps running at the same time mine seems to be killed

[b2g] Prevent app from being killed

2014-05-22 Thread porschekoenig
Hi there, I'm quite new to Firefox OS. At the moment I'm struggling with implementing some kind of a "service" that listens for geolocation updates in the background. If there are lots of other apps running at the same time mine seems to be killed by the system. When I debug with App Manager it